Control Characters
Char | Oct | Dec | Hex | Control-Key | Control Action |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NUL | 0 | 0 | 0 | ^@ | Null character |
SOH | 1 | 1 | 1 | ^A | Start of heading, = console interrupt |
STX | 2 | 2 | 2 | ^B | Start of text, maintenance mode on HP console |
ETX | 3 | 3 | 3 | ^C | End of text |
EOT | 4 | 4 | 4 | ^D | End of transmission, not the same as ETB |
ENQ | 5 | 5 | 5 | ^E | Enquiry, goes with ACK; old HP flow control |
ACK | 6 | 6 | 6 | ^F | Acknowledge, clears ENQ logon hand |
BEL | 7 | 7 | 7 | ^G | Bell, rings the bell... |
BS | 10 | 8 | 8 | ^H | Backspace, works on HP terminals/computers |
HT | 11 | 9 | 9 | ^I | Horizontal tab, move to next tab stop |
LF | 12 | 10 | a | ^J | Line Feed |
VT | 13 | 11 | b | ^K | Vertical tab |
FF | 14 | 12 | c | ^L | Form Feed, page eject |
CR | 15 | 13 | d | ^M | Carriage Return |
SO | 16 | 14 | e | ^N | Shift Out, alternate character set |
SI | 17 | 15 | f | ^O | Shift In, resume defaultn character set |
DLE | 20 | 16 | 10 | ^P | Data link escape |
DC1 | 21 | 17 | 11 | ^Q | XON, with XOFF to pause listings; ":okay to send". |
DC2 | 22 | 18 | 12 | ^R | Device control 2, block-mode flow control |
DC3 | 23 | 19 | 13 | ^S | XOFF, with XON is TERM=18 flow control |
DC4 | 24 | 20 | 14 | ^T | Device control 4 |
NAK | 25 | 21 | 15 | ^U | Negative acknowledge |
SYN | 26 | 22 | 16 | ^V | Synchronous idle |
ETB | 27 | 23 | 17 | ^W | End transmission block, not the same as EOT |
CAN | 30 | 24 | 17 | ^X | Cancel line, MPE echoes !!! |
EM | 31 | 25 | 19 | ^Y | End of medium, Control-Y interrupt |
SUB | 32 | 26 | 1a | ^Z | Substitute |
ESC | 33 | 27 | 1b | ^[ | Escape, next character is not echoed |
FS | 34 | 28 | 1c | ^\ | File separator |
GS | 35 | 29 | 1d | ^] | Group separator |
RS | 36 | 30 | 1e | ^^ | Record separator, block-mode terminator |
US | 37 | 31 | 1f | ^_ | Unit separator |
Printing Characters
Char | Octal | Dec | Hex | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
SP | 40 | 32 | 20 | Space |
! | 41 | 33 | 21 | Exclamation mark |
" | 42 | 34 | 22 | Quotation mark (" in HTML) |
# | 43 | 35 | 23 | Cross hatch (number sign) |
$ | 44 | 36 | 24 | Dollar sign |
% | 45 | 37 | 25 | Percent sign |
& | 46 | 38 | 26 | Ampersand |
` | 47 | 39 | 27 | Closing single quote (apostrophe) |
( | 50 | 40 | 28 | Opening parentheses |
) | 51 | 41 | 29 | Closing parentheses |
* | 52 | 42 | 2a | Asterisk (star, multiply) |
+ | 53 | 43 | 2b | Plus |
, | 54 | 44 | 2c | Comma |
- | 55 | 45 | 2d | Hyphen, dash, minus |
. | 56 | 46 | 2e | Period |
/ | 57 | 47 | 2f | Slant (forward slash, divide) |
0 | 60 | 48 | 30 | Zero |
1 | 61 | 49 | 31 | One |
2 | 62 | 50 | 32 | Two |
3 | 63 | 51 | 33 | Three |
4 | 64 | 52 | 34 | Four |
5 | 65 | 53 | 35 | Five |
6 | 66 | 54 | 36 | Six |
7 | 67 | 55 | 37 | Seven |
8 | 70 | 56 | 38 | Eight |
9 | 71 | 57 | 39 | Nine |
: | 72 | 58 | 3a | Colon |
; | 73 | 59 | 3b | Semicolon |
< | 74 | 60 | 3c | Less than sign (< in HTML) |
= | 75 | 61 | 3d | Equals sign |
> | 76 | 62 | 3e | Greater than sign (> in HTML) |
? | 77 | 63 | 3f | Question mark |
@ | 100 | 64 | 40 | At-sign |
A | 101 | 65 | 41 | Uppercase A |
B | 102 | 66 | 42 | Uppercase B |
C | 103 | 67 | 43 | Uppercase C |
D | 104 | 68 | 44 | Uppercase D |
E | 105 | 69 | 45 | Uppercase E |
F | 106 | 70 | 46 | Uppercase F |
G | 107 | 71 | 47 | Uppercase G |
H | 110 | 72 | 48 | Uppercase H |
I | 111 | 73 | 49 | Uppercase I |
J | 112 | 74 | 4a | Uppercase J |
K | 113 | 75 | 4b | Uppercase K |
L | 114 | 76 | 4c | Uppercase L |
M | 115 | 77 | 4d | Uppercase M |
N | 116 | 78 | 4e | Uppercase N |
O | 117 | 79 | 4f | Uppercase O |
P | 120 | 80 | 50 | Uppercase P |
Q | 121 | 81 | 51 | Uppercase Q |
R | 122 | 82 | 52 | Uppercase R |
S | 123 | 83 | 53 | Uppercase S |
T | 124 | 84 | 54 | Uppercase T |
U | 125 | 85 | 55 | Uppercase U |
V | 126 | 86 | 56 | Uppercase V |
W | 127 | 87 | 57 | Uppercase W |
X | 130 | 88 | 58 | Uppercase X |
Y | 131 | 89 | 59 | Uppercase Y |
Z | 132 | 90 | 5a | Uppercase Z |
[ | 133 | 91 | 5b | Opening square bracket |
\ | 134 | 92 | 5c | Reverse slant (Backslash) |
] | 135 | 93 | 5d | Closing square bracket |
^ | 136 | 94 | 5e | Caret (Circumflex) |
_ | 137 | 95 | 5f | Underscore |
` | 140 | 96 | 60 | Opening single quote |
a | 141 | 97 | 61 | Lowercase a |
b | 142 | 98 | 62 | Lowercase b |
c | 143 | 99 | 63 | Lowercase c |
d | 144 | 100 | 64 | Lowercase d |
e | 145 | 101 | 65 | Lowercase e |
f | 146 | 102 | 66 | Lowercase f |
g | 147 | 103 | 67 | Lowercase g |
h | 150 | 104 | 68 | Lowercase h |
i | 151 | 105 | 69 | Lowercase i |
j | 152 | 106 | 6a | Lowercase j |
k | 153 | 107 | 6b | Lowercase k |
l | 154 | 108 | 6c | Lowercase l |
m | 155 | 109 | 6d | Lowercase m |
n | 156 | 110 | 6e | Lowercase n |
o | 157 | 111 | 6f | Lowercase o |
p | 160 | 112 | 70 | Lowercase p |
q | 161 | 113 | 71 | Lowercase q |
r | 162 | 114 | 72 | Lowercase r |
s | 163 | 115 | 73 | Lowercase s |
t | 164 | 116 | 74 | Lowercase t |
u | 165 | 117 | 75 | Lowercase u |
v | 166 | 118 | 76 | Lowercase v |
w | 167 | 119 | 77 | Lowercase w |
x | 170 | 120 | 78 | Lowercase x |
y | 171 | 121 | 79 | Lowercase y |
z | 172 | 122 | 7a | Lowercase z |
{ | 173 | 123 | 7b | Opening curly brace |
| | 174 | 124 | 7c | Vertical line |
} | 175 | 125 | 7d | Cloing curly brace |
~ | 176 | 126 | 7e | Tilde (approximate) |
DEL | 177 | 127 | 7f | Delete (rubout), cross-hatch box |