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ASCII Codes to Some Special Characters

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The chart below gives the ASCII code values and descriptions of the most commonly used special characters that are independent of font. Any of these can be used in Q++, using an ASCII character token.

 

Character

ASCII Code

Description

 

13

Carriage Return

Space

32

Space

!

33

Exclamation point

"

34

Double Quotes

#

35

Number symbol

$

36

Dollar symbol

%

37

Percent symbol

&

38

Ampersand

'

39

Single quote

(

40

Open parenthesis

)

41

Close parenthesis

*

42

Asterisk

+

43

Plus sign

,

44

Comma

-

45

Hyphen

.

46

Period

/

47

Slash (bar)

0

48

Zero

1

49

One

2

50

Two

3

51

Three

4

52

Four

5

53

Five

6

54

Six

7

55

Seven

8

56

Eight

9

57

Nine

:

58

Colon

 

59

Semicolon

<

60

Less than

=

61

Equals sign

>

62

Greater than

?

63

Question mark

@

64

At symbol

[

91

Opening bracket

\

92

Backslash

]

93

Closing bracket

^

94

Caret

_

95

Underscore

`

96

Acute accent

{

123

Opening brace

|

124

Vertical bar

}

125

Closing brace

~

126

Tilde

 

127

No character

 

129

Trademark

130

Low-9 quote

ƒ

131

Function sign

132

Low-9 double quote

133

Ellipsis

134

Dagger

135

Double dagger

ˆ

136

Caret

137

Per thousand

Š

138

Capital S with caron

139

Less-than

Œ

140

Capital OE ligature

Ÿ

141

Capital Y with umlaut

 

144

No character

'

145

Opening single quote

'

146

Closing single quote

"

147

Opening double quote

"

148

Closing double quote

149

Bullet

150

En dash

151

Em dash

˜

152

Tilde

153

Trademark symbol

š

154

Small s with caron

155

Greater-than

œ

156

Small oe ligature

 

157

No character

 

158

No character

Ÿ

159

Capital Y with umlaut

 

160

en-Space

¡

161

Inverted exclamation point

¢

162

Cent symbol

£

163

Pound sterling

¤

164

Currency symbol

¥

165

Japanese Yen

¦

166

Broken vertical bar

§

167

Section symbol

¨

168

Umlaut

©

169

Copyright

ª

170

Feminine ordinal

«

171

Opening double angle quote

¬

172

Logical "Not" symbol

­

173

Soft hyphen

®

174

Registration mark

¯

175

Macron

°

176

Degree symbol

±

177

Plus / minus

²

178

Superscript 2

³

179

Superscript 3

´

180

Acute accent

µ

181

Micro symbol

182

Paragraph symbol

·

183

Middle dot

¸

184

Cedilla

¹

185

Superscript 1

º

186

Masculine ordinal

»

187

Closing double angle quotes

¼

188

Fraction one-quarter

½

189

Fraction one-half

¾

190

Fraction three-fourths

¿

191

Inverted question mark

À

192

Capital A, grave accent

 


Topic 176265 updated on 09-Dec-03
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