This is very long text that contains all ASCII printable characters ASCII(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ASCII(7)####NAME# ascii - the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadec-# imal##DESCRIPTION# ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is# a 7-bit code. Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the Linux default# character set) contain ASCII as their lower half. The international# counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646.## The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.## C program '\X' escapes are noted.## Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char# ------------------------------------------------------------------------# 000 0 00 NUL '\0' 100 64 40 @# 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A# 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B# 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C# 004 4 04 EOT (end of transmission) 104 68 44 D# 005 5 05 ENQ (enquiry) 105 69 45 E# 006 6 06 ACK (acknowledge) 106 70 46 F# 007 7 07 BEL '\a' (bell) 107 71 47 G# 010 8 08 BS '\b' (backspace) 110 72 48 H# 011 9 09 HT '\t' (horizontal tab) 111 73 49 I# 012 10 0A LF '\n' (new line) 112 74 4A J# 013 11 0B VT '\v' (vertical tab) 113 75 4B K# 014 12 0C FF '\f' (form feed) 114 76 4C L# 015 13 0D CR '\r' (carriage ret) 115 77 4D M# 016 14 0E SO (shift out) 116 78 4E N# 017 15 0F SI (shift in) 117 79 4F O# 020 16 10 DLE (data link escape) 120 80 50 P# 021 17 11 DC1 (device control 1) 121 81 51 Q# 022 18 12 DC2 (device control 2) 122 82 52 R# 023 19 13 DC3 (device control 3) 123 83 53 S# 024 20 14 DC4 (device control 4) 124 84 54 T# 025 21 15 NAK (negative ack.) 125 85 55 U# 026 22 16 SYN (synchronous idle) 126 86 56 V# 027 23 17 ETB (end of trans. blk) 127 87 57 W# 030 24 18 CAN (cancel) 130 88 58 X# 031 25 19 EM (end of medium) 131 89 59 Y# 032 26 1A SUB (substitute) 132 90 5A Z# 033 27 1B ESC (escape) 133 91 5B [# 034 28 1C FS (file separator) 134 92 5C \ '\\'# 035 29 1D GS (group separator) 135 93 5D ]# 036 30 1E RS (record separator) 136 94 5E ^# 037 31 1F US (unit separator) 137 95 5F _# 040 32 20 SPACE 140 96 60 `# 041 33 21 ! 141 97 61 a# 042 34 22 " 142 98 62 b# 043 35 23 # 143 99 63 c# 044 36 24 $ 144 100 64 d# 045 37 25 % 145 101 65 e# 046 38 26 & 146 102 66 f# 047 39 27 ' 147 103 67 g# 050 40 28 ( 150 104 68 h# 051 41 29 ) 151 105 69 i# 052 42 2A * 152 106 6A j# 053 43 2B + 153 107 6B k# 054 44 2C , 154 108 6C l## 055 45 2D - 155 109 6D m# 056 46 2E . 156 110 6E n# 057 47 2F / 157 111 6F o# 060 48 30 0 160 112 70 p# 061 49 31 1 161 113 71 q# 062 50 32 2 162 114 72 r# 063 51 33 3 163 115 73 s# 064 52 34 4 164 116 74 t# 065 53 35 5 165 117 75 u# 066 54 36 6 166 118 76 v# 067 55 37 7 167 119 77 w# 070 56 38 8 170 120 78 x# 071 57 39 9 171 121 79 y# 072 58 3A : 172 122 7A z# 073 59 3B ; 173 123 7B {# 074 60 3C < 174 124 7C |# 075 61 3D = 175 125 7D }# 076 62 3E > 176 126 7E ~# 077 63 3F ? 177 127 7F DEL## Tables# For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal.## 2 3 4 5 6 7 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120# ------------- ---------------------------------# 0: 0 @ P ` p 0: ( 2 < F P Z d n x# 1: ! 1 A Q a q 1: ) 3 = G Q [ e o y# 2: " 2 B R b r 2: * 4 > H R \ f p z# 3: # 3 C S c s 3: ! + 5 ? I S ] g q {# 4: $ 4 D T d t 4: " , 6 @ J T ^ h r |# 5: % 5 E U e u 5: # - 7 A K U _ i s }# 6: & 6 F V f v 6: $ . 8 B L V ` j t ~# 7: ' 7 G W g w 7: % / 9 C M W a k u DEL# 8: ( 8 H X h x 8: & 0 : D N X b l v# 9: ) 9 I Y i y 9: ' 1 ; E O Y c m w# A: * : J Z j z# B: + ; K [ k {# C: , < L \ l |# D: - = M ] m }# E: . > N ^ n ~# F: / ? O _ o DEL##NOTES# History# An ascii manual page appeared in Version 7 of AT&T UNIX.## On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed as a left arrow,# called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an up-arrow and the verti-# cal bar has a hole in the middle.## Uppercase and lowercase characters differ by just one bit and the ASCII# character 2 differs from the double quote by just one bit, too. That# made it much easier to encode characters mechanically or with a non-# microcontroller-based electronic keyboard and that pairing was found on# old teletypes.## The ASCII standard was published by the United States of America Stan-# dards Institute (USASI) in 1968.##SEE ALSO# iso_8859-1(7), iso_8859-10(7), iso_8859-13(7), iso_8859-14(7),# iso_8859-15(7), iso_8859-16(7), iso_8859-2(7), iso_8859-3(7),# iso_8859-4(7), iso_8859-5(7), iso_8859-6(7), iso_8859-7(7),# iso_8859-8(7), iso_8859-9(7)##COLOPHON# This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A# description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can# be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.####Linux 2009-02-12 ASCII(7)# Length of text is +7688.0.