Appendix F ASCII Character Set

ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a
code in which the numbers from 0–127 stand for text charcters, including letters of the
alphabet, the digits 0–9, punctuation marks, special characters, and control characters. ASCII
is used for representing text inside of the computer and for transmitting text between
computers. The Text and XMODEM protocols transfer files that consist only of ASCII
characters; such files are also known as Text files.
When submitting data to the WHPO in the —.SUM, —.SEA, —.LVS, or —.CTD files only
ASCII characters shown below should be included as these files are designed to be read by
FORTRAN programs. The restriction does not apply to the —.DOC file, which can be
submitted in any word processing program tabulated in Appendix E.
If submitting text files in ASCII please observe the following conventions to facilitate
formatting by the WHPO for printing:

• Do not use a hyphen (-) to separate parts of a compound word.

• Please use a decimal (.) to delineate fractional values rather than a comma (,) and
include the leading zero on small numbers, i.e., 0.045 rather than .045 or 0,045.

• Tables should be tab or comma delimited with no spaces between entries and each row
delimited by a carriage return/line feed (CR/LF).

• Experience has shown that tables submitted in ASCII format are particularly
susceptible to formatting errors. It is suggested that proof copies of all formatted tables
submitted originally in ASCII format be carefully checked.

• Put a CR/LF only between paragraphs in text if possible or, alternatively, include one
blank line between paragraphs.
140 ASCII Characters

ASCII character chart

Key Code (decimal)Code (hex) Abbreviation Name
Control-space 0 $00 NUL Null
Control-a 1 $01 SOH Start of header
Control-b 2 $02 STX Start of text
Control-c 3 $03 ETX End of text
Control-d 4 $04 EOT End of transmission
Control-e 5 $05 ENQ Enquiry
Control-f 6 $06 ACK Acknowledgment
Control-g 7 $07 BELL Bell
Control-h 8 $08 BS Backspace
Control-i 9 $09 HT Horizontal tab
Control-j 10 $0A LF Line feed
Control-k 11 $0B VT Vertical tab
Control-l 12 $0C FF Form feed
Control-m 13 $0D CR Carriage return
Control-n 14 $0E SO Shift out
Control-o 15 $0F SI Shift in
Control-p 16 $10 DLE Data link escape
Control-q 17 $11 DC1 (XON) Device control 1
Control-r 18 $12 DC2 Device control 2
Control-s 19 $13 DC3 (XOFF) Device control 3
Control-t 20 $14 DC4 Device control 4
Control-u 21 $15 NAK Negative acknowledgment
Control-v 22 $16 SYN Synchronization character
Control-w 23 $17 ETB End-of-transmission block
Control-x 24 $18 CAN Cancel
Control-y 25 $19 EM End of message
Control-z 26 $1A SUB Substitute
Control-[ 27 $1B ESC Escape
Control-\ 28 $1C FS Forms separator
Control-] 29 $1D GS Group separator
Control-6 30 $1E RS Record separator
Control-/ 31 $1F US Unit separator
space 32 $20 Space
! 33 $21 Exclamation point
" 34 $22 Quotation mark
# 35 $23 Number sign
$ 36 $24 Dollar sign
% 37 $25 Percent sign
& 38 $26 Ampersand
' 39 $27 Apostrophe, right single
quotation mark, acute accent
( 40 $28 Left parenthesis
) 41 $29 Right parenthesis
* 42 $2A Asterisk
+ 43 $2B Plus sign
, 44 $2C Comma
- 45 $2D Hyphen, minus sign
. 46 $2E Period, decimal point (full stop)
/ 47 $2F Slant (solidus)
0 48 $30 Digit zero
1 49 $31 Digit one
2 50 $32 Digit two
3 51 $33 Digit three
4 52 $34 Digit four
5 53 $35 Digit five
6 54 $36 Digit six
7 55 $37 Digit seven
8 56 $38 Digit eight
9 57 $39 Digit nine
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Key Code (decimal)Code (hex) Abbreviation Name

: 58 $3A Colon
; 59 $3B Semicolon
< 60 $3C Less than sign
= 61 $3D Equal sign
> 62 $3E Greater than sign
? 63 $3F Question mark
@ 64 $40 Commercial at
A 65 $41 Uppercase A
B 66 $42 Uppercase B
C 67 $43 Uppercase C
D 68 $44 Uppercase D
E 69 $45 Uppercase E
F 70 $46 Uppercase F
G 71 $47 Uppercase G
H 72 $48 Uppercase H
I 73 $49 Uppercase I
J 74 $4A Uppercase J
K 75 $4B Uppercase K
L 76 $4C Uppercase L
M 77 $4D Uppercase M
N 78 $4E Uppercase N
O 79 $4F Uppercase O
P 80 $50 Uppercase P
Q 81 $51 Uppercase Q
R 82 $52 Uppercase R
S 83 $53 Uppercase S
T 84 $54 Uppercase T
U 85 $55 Uppercase U
V 86 $56 Uppercase V
W 87 $57 Uppercase W
X 88 $58 Uppercase X
Y 89 $59 Uppercase Y
Z 90 $5A Uppercase Z
[ 91 $5B Left bracket (left square bracket)
\ 92 $5C Reverse slant (reverse solidus)
] 93 $5D Right bracket (right square bracket)
^ 94 $5E Circumflex accent
_ 95 $5F Underline (lowline)
` 96 $60 Left single quotation mark, grave
accent
a 97 $61 Lowercase a
b 98 $62 Lowercase b
c 99 $63 Lowercase c
d 100 $64 Lowercase d
e 101 $65 Lowercase e
f 102 $66 Lowercase f
g 103 $67 Lowercase g
h 104 $68 Lowercase h
i 105 $69 Lowercase i
j 106 $6A Lowercase j
k 107 $6B Lowercase k
l 108 $6C Lowercase l
m 109 $6D Lowercase m
n 110 $6E Lowercase n
o 111 $6F Lowercase o
p 112 $70 Lowercase p
q 113 $71 Lowercase q
r 114 $72 Lowercase r
s 115 $73 Lowercase s
t 116 $74 Lowercase t
u 117 $75 Lowercase u
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Key Code (decimal)Code (hex) Abbreviation Name

v 118 $76 Lowercase v
w 119 $77 Lowercase w
x 120 $78 Lowercase x
y 121 $79 Lowercase y
z 122 $7A Lowercase z
{ 123 $7B Left brace (left curly bracket)
| 124 $7C Vertical line
} 125 $7D Right brace
~ 126 $7E Tilde (overline)
Delete 127 $7F DEL Delete