ascii table of ASCII collating sequence	Miscellaneous Information
	DESCRIPTION PORTABILITY SEE ALSO

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DESCRIPTION

Table 1 gives hexadecimal values and their corresponding visual appearance (or interpretation, for control codes) for standard ASCII characters:

Table 1: Standard 7-bit ASCII Representation

The following tables shows the extensions to standard ASCII available on the IBM PC and compatibles. This first table shows the same characters as the prior table; the primary difference being the actual glyphs displayed for the control characters.

Table 2: IBM PC Extensions to ASCII Part 1

The following table shows the extensions to standard ASCII available on the IBM PC and compatibles. In particular, this table shows character collating sequences for accented characters in various non-English languages.

Table 3: IBM PC Extensions to ASCII Part 2

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PORTABILITY

The 7-bit ASCII codes are portable. They conform to the ISO/IEC 646 standard. The 8-bit codes are relatively IBM PC-specific.

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SEE ALSO

Commands:

awk, sort