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Appendix E
The Character Sets
The following charts show the ordering of characters in two widely used character sets: ASCII (American
Standard Code for Information Interchange) and EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code). The internal representation for each character is shown in decimal. For example, the letter A is
represented internally as the integer 65 in ASCII and as 193 in EBCDIC. The space (blank) character is
denoted by a “ ”.
Right
ASCII
Left
Digit
Digit(s) 0123456789
0 NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT
1 LF VT FF CR SO SI DLE DC1 DC2 DC3
2 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS
3RSUS !“#$%& ´
4()*+,–./01
5 23456789 ...