ASCII Characters

Publishing work relies on the ability to understand and handle correctly the structure of the text. This entails a variety of skills, among others the knowledge how computers understand the text in its digitalised form. In other words, knowing the knitty-gritty details of character encoding might be a vital skill in producing a good book.

ASCII characters are a table of all possible characters used in text representation. These characters can be divided into classes. Some are printable, i.e. we can see them printed. They consist of numbers, letters, and punctuation ("4", "a", "A", "&"). Other ASCII codes represent control characters. They are not visible or printable as is, but they influence the text structure, control the data stream in printers, or can even emit a sound. 

The shortened table of ASCII codes is below. For a consise overview of character encoding (including a whole ASCII table), history introduction, and information on the current usage of various coding schemes (such as UTF-8) see an article written by Bryan Innes.
 

Table of selected ASCII characters

ASCII Code

Symbol

Name of the Sign

ALT + 0128

Euro

ALT + 0130

Quotation mark / Left single (low-9)

ALT + 0131

ƒ

Small letter f with hook

ALT + 0132

Quotation mark / Left double (low-99)

ALT + 0133

Ellipsis

ALT + 0134

Dagger

ALT + 0135

Double dagger

ALT + 0136

ˆ

Modifier / Accent circumflex

ALT + 0137

Per mille

ALT + 0145

Quotation mark / Left single

ALT + 0146

Quotation mark / Right single

ALT + 0147

Quotation mark / Left double

ALT + 0148

Quotation mark / Right double

ALT + 0149

Bullet

ALT + 0150

En dash (en = "n")

ALT + 0151

Em dash (em = "m")

ALT + 0152

˜

Tilde / Small

ALT + 0153

Trade mark sign

ALT + 0155

Single right-pointing angle quotation mark

ALT + 0160

  

Non-breaking space ("nbsp")

ALT + 0162

¢

Cent sign

ALT + 0163

Ł

Pound sign

ALT + 0164

¤

Currency sign

ALT + 0165

¥

Yen sign

ALT + 0166

¦

Pipe, Broken vertical bar

ALT + 0167

§

Section sign

ALT + 0169

©

Copyright sign

ALT + 0171

«

Double angle quotes / Left

ALT + 0172

¬

Not sign

ALT + 0174

®

Registered sign

ALT + 0176

°

Degree sign

ALT + 0177

±

Plus-or-minus

ALT + 0178

²

Superscript 2 squared

ALT + 0179

³

Superscript 3 cubed

ALT + 0180

´

Accent / Acute

ALT + 0181

µ

Micro sign

ALT + 0182

Paragraph sign

ALT + 0183

·

Middle dot

ALT + 0185

¹

Superscript 1

ALT + 0187

»

Double angle quotes / Right

ALT + 0188

¼

Fraction ¼

ALT + 0189

½

Fraction ½

ALT + 0190

¾

Fraction ¾

ALT + 0197

Å

Ångström (Scandinavian Å)

ALT + 0215

×

Multiplication sign (…times)

ALT + 0216

Ø

Capital letter O with slash

ALT + 0230

æ

Small letter ae

ALT + 0231

ç

Small letter c with cedilla

ALT + 0247

÷

Division sign

 


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