Appendix D. Interaction

HTML ASCII Reference

ASCII is a 7-bit character set containing 128 characters. It contains the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English letters from A to Z, and some special characters. The character-sets used in modern computers, HTML, and Internet are all based on ASCII. The following table lists the 128 ASCII characters.

ASCII Printable Characters

ASCII Character

Keycode

Description

 

32

space

!

33

exclamation mark

“

34

quotation mark

#

35

number sign

$

36

dollar sign

%

37

percent sign

&

38

ampersand

‘

39

apostrophe

(

40

left parenthesis

)

41

right parenthesis

*

42

asterisk

+

43

plus sign

,

44

comma

-

45

hyphen

.

46

period

/

47

slash

0

48

digit 0

1

49

digit 1

2

50

digit 2

3

51

digit 3

4

52

digit 4

5

53

digit 5

6

54

digit 6

7

55

digit 7

8

56

digit 8

9

57

digit 9

:

58

colon

;

59

semicolon ...

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