NAME

     ascii - the ASCII character set encoded in  octal,  decimal,
     and hexadecimal


DESCRIPTION

     ASCII is the American Standard Code for  Information  Inter-
     change.   It  is a 7-bit code. Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO
     8859-1, the Linux default character set)  contain  ASCII  as
     their lower half.  The international counterpart of ASCII is
     known as ISO 646.

     The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.

     C program '\X' escapes are noted.

     l      l      l      l      l      l      l       l       l.
     Oct  Dec  Hex  Char      Oct  Dec  Hex  Char               _
     000  0    00   NUL               '\0'       100  64   40   @
     001  1    01   SOH       101  65   41   A
     002  2    02   STX       102  66   42   B
     003  3    03   ETX       103  67   43   C
     004  4    04   EOT       104  68   44   D
     005  5    05   ENQ       105  69   45   E
     006  6    06   ACK       106  70   46   F 007  7    07   BEL
     '\a'       107  71   47   G                010  8    08   BS
     '\b'       110  72   48   H                011  9    09   HT
     '\t'       111  73   49   I                012  10   0A   LF
     '\n'       112  74   4A   J                013  11   0B   VT
     '\v'       113  75   4B   K                014  12   0C   FF
     '\f'       114  76   4C   L                015  13   0D   CR
     '\r'       115  77   4D   M
     016  14   0E   SO        116  78   4E   N
     017  15   0F   SI        117  79   4F   O
     020  16   10   DLE       120  80   50   P
     021  17   11   DC1       121  81   51   Q
     022  18   12   DC2       122  82   52   R
     023  19   13   DC3       123  83   53   S
     024  20   14   DC4       124  84   54   T
     025  21   15   NAK       125  85   55   U
     026  22   16   SYN       126  86   56   V
     027  23   17   ETB       127  87   57   W
     030  24   18   CAN       130  88   58   X
     031  25   19   EM        131  89   59   Y
     032  26   1A   SUB       132  90   5A   Z
     033  27   1B   ESC       133  91   5B   [
     034  28   1C   FS        134  92   5C   \               '\\'
     035  29   1D   GS        135  93   5D   ]
     036  30   1E   RS        136  94   5E   ^
     037  31   1F   US        137  95   5F   _
     040  32   20   SPACE          140  96   60   `
     041  33   21   !         141  97   61   a
     042  34   22   "         142  98   62   b
     043  35   23   #         143  99   63   c
     044  36   24   $         144  100  64   d
     045  37   25   %         145  101  65   e
     046  38   26   &         146  102  66   f
     047  39   27   '         147  103  67   g
     050  40   28   (         150  104  68   h
     051  41   29   )         151  105  69   i
     052  42   2A   *         152  106  6A   j
     053  43   2B   +         153  107  6B   k
     054  44   2C   ,         154  108  6C   l
     055  45   2D   -         155  109  6D   m
     056  46   2E   .         156  110  6E   n
     057  47   2F   /         157  111  6F   o
     060  48   30   0         160  112  70   p
     061  49   31   1         161  113  71   q
     062  50   32   2         162  114  72   r
     063  51   33   3         163  115  73   s
     064  52   34   4         164  116  74   t
     065  53   35   5         165  117  75   u
     066  54   36   6         166  118  76   v
     067  55   37   7         167  119  77   w
     070  56   38   8         170  120  78   x
     071  57   39   9         171  121  79   y
     072  58   3A   :         172  122  7A   z
     073  59   3B   ;         173  123  7B   {
     074  60   3C   <         174  124  7C   |   075  61   3D   =
             175  125  7D   }
     076  62   3E   >         176  126  7E   ~
     077  63   3F   ?         177  127  7F   DEL


HISTORY

     An ascii manual page appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

     On older terminals, the underscore code is  displayed  as  a
     left  arrow,  called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an
     up-arrow and the vertical bar has a hole in the middle.

     The ASCII standard was published by  the  United  States  of
     America Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968.


SEE ALSO

     iso_8859_1(7)