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ASCII character set is used for data information transmission between different computers on the network. It is the most general information exchange standard and is equivalent to the international standard ISO/IEC 646. The first time ASCII was published as a standard specification was in1967year, the last update was in1986year, up to now, a total of128characters

ASCII character set

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange: American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a set of computer encoding systems based on the Latin alphabet, mainly used for displaying modern English and other Western European languages.

ASCII is 7 bit character set, which includes 128 different character values.

ASCII supports 0-9 number, A-Z uppercase and lowercase English letters, as well as some special characters.

The character sets widely used in modern computers, HTML, and the internet are all based on ASCII.

The following table lists128ASCII characters and their corresponding HTML entity encodings.

ASCII printable characters

character set	number	description
	32	space
!	33	exclamation mark
"	34	quotation mark
#	35	number sign
$	36	dollar sign
%	37	percent sign
&	38	ampersand
'	39	apostrophe
(	40	left parenthesis
)	41	right parenthesis
*	42	asterisk
+	43	plus sign
,	44	comma
-	45	hyphen
.	46	period
/	47	slash
0	48	digit 0
1	49	digit 1
2	50	digit 2
3	51	digit 3
4	52	digit 4
5	53	digit 5
6	54	digit 6
7	55	digit 7
8	56	digit 8
9	57	digit 9
:	58	colon
;	59	semicolon
<	60	less-than
=	61	equals-to
>	62	greater-than
?	63	question mark
@	64	at sign
A	65	uppercase A
B	66	uppercase B
C	67	uppercase C
D	68	uppercase D
E	69	uppercase E
F	70	uppercase F
G	71	uppercase G
H	72	uppercase H
I	73	uppercase I
J	74	uppercase J
K	75	uppercase K
L	76	uppercase L
M	77	uppercase M
N	78	uppercase N
O	79	uppercase O
P	80	uppercase P
Q	81	uppercase Q
R	82	uppercase R
S	83	uppercase S
T	84	uppercase T
U	85	uppercase U
V	86	uppercase V
W	87	uppercase W
X	88	uppercase X
Y	89	uppercase Y
Z	90	uppercase Z
[	91	left square bracket
\	92	backslash
]	93	right square bracket
^	94	caret
_	95	underscore
`	96	grave accent
a	97	lowercase a
b	98	lowercase b
c	99	lowercase c
d	100	lowercase d
e	101	lowercase e
f	102	lowercase f
g	103	lowercase g
h	104	lowercase h
i	105	lowercase i
j	106	lowercase j
k	107	lowercase k
l	108	lowercase l
m	109	lowercase m
n	110	lowercase n
o	111	lowercase o
p	112	lowercase p
q	113	lowercase q
r	114	lowercase r
s	115	lowercase s
t	116	lowercase t
u	117	lowercase u
v	118	lowercase v
w	119	lowercase w
x	120	lowercase x
y	121	lowercase y
z	122	lowercase z
{	123	left curly brace
\|	124	vertical bar
}	125	right curly brace
~	126	tilde

ASCII device control characters

The ASCII device control characters were originally designed to control hardware devices such as printers and tape drives.

These codes will not take any effect in HTML documents.

character	number	description
NUL	00	null character
SOH	01	start of header
STX	02	start of text
ETX	03	end of text
EOT	04	end of transmission
ENQ	05	enquiry
ACK	06	acknowledge
BEL	07	bell (ring)
BS	08	backspace
HT	09	horizontal tab
LF	10	line feed
VT	11	vertical tab
FF	12	form feed
CR	13	carriage return
SO	14	shift out
SI	15	shift in
DLE	16	data link escape
DC1	17	device control 1
DC2	18	device control 2
DC3	19	device control 3
DC4	20	device control 4
NAK	21	negative acknowledge
SYN	22	synchronize
ETB	23	end transmission block
CAN	24	cancel
EM	25	end of medium
SUB	26	substitute
ESC	27	escape
FS	28	file separator
GS	29	group separator
RS	30	record separator
US	31	unit separator

DEL	127	delete (rubout)

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