Special characters
Thaddeus J. Evert
Here's a list of special and regular characters that can be activated in
any ASCII text system (at least for PCs...)
To type them, hold down the Alt-key, type the number of the character
[20, for example], release the Alt-key and presto:
¶
After 129, they start to get interesting...
BEWARE: ¡¡¡Some of these characters have a way of setting off commands in
some text-editors!!!
Have fun,
Thaddeus
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
- Bertrand Russell
1 = [home]
2 = [<-]
3 =
4 = [backspace]
5 = [end]
6 = [->]
7 =
8 = [backspace]
9 = [tab]
11, 13 = [return]
12 = [page break] 14 = [column
break]
15 = ¤
20 = ¶
21 = §
30 = [Marks Set/UNset]
32 = [space]
33 = !
34 = "
35 = #
36 = $
37 = %
38 = &
39 = '
40 = (
41 = )
42 = *
43 = +
44 = ,
45 = -
46 = .
47 = /
48-57 = 0-9
58 = :
59 = ;
60 = <
61 = =
62 = >
63 = ?
64 = @
65-90 = A-Z
91 = [
92 = \
93 = ]
94 = ^
95 = _
96 = `
97-122 = a-z
123 = {
124 = |
125 = }
126 = ~
127 = [backspace]
128 = Ç
129 = ü
130 = é
131 = â
132 = ä
133 = à
134 = å
135 = ç
136 = ê
137 = ë
138 = è
139 = ï
140 = î
141 = ì
142 = Ä
143 = Å
144 = É
145 = æ
146 = Æ
147 = ô
148 = ö
149 = ò
150 = û
151 = ù
152 =
153 = Ö
154 = Ü
155 = ¢
156 = £
157 = ¥
158 = P
159 =
160 = á
161 = í
162 = ó
163 = ú
164 = ñ
165 = Ñ
166 = ª
167 = º
168 = ¿
169 = _
170 =
171 = ½
172 = ¼
173 = ¡
174 = « 1
75 = »
176-248 = + or - or ¦ or_
except
225 = ß
227 = ¶
230 = µ
241 = ±
246 = ÷
248 = °
249 =
250 = ·
251 = _
252 = n
253 = ²
257-509 Repeat characters from 256 ago ( -²)
and continue to repeat every 256 characters
Albert Y.C. Lai
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.980216...@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>,
"Thaddeus J. Evert" <tev...@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu> wrote:
>Here's a list of special and regular characters that can be activated in
>any ASCII text system (at least for PCs...)
I strongly advise against this.
First, after 128, they are _not_ ASCII anymore --- they are
proprietory to PCs. What you see on PCs is not what you get on other
platforms.
Second, there is a standardized way to use and send out the special
characters. You should use some standardized encoding, such as
ISO-8859-1 Latin 1, and your message header should bear MIME lines
indicating which encoding you use. Only then will your audience with
MIME-capable software see your writing.
Having said those, you do have some freedom of speech --- spew
whatever funny characters you want. Just don't take for granted that
we folks can read them. Bottomline, and I think it makes sense: if we
can't read you, we won't help you.
--
Albert Y.C. Lai tre...@vex.net http://www.vex.net/~trebla/