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Microsoft® Computer Dictionary
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Microsoft® Computer Dictionary

by Microsoft Press
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
32h 54m
English
Microsoft Press
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Appendix A. Common Character Sets

ANSI Character Set

Character

Unicode Value (Hex)

ANSI code (decimal)

Description

NUL

0000

0

Null

SOH

0001

1

Start of heading

STX

0002

2

Start of text

ETX

0003

3

End of text

EOT

0004

4

End of transmission

ENQ

0005

5

Enquiry

ACK

0006

6

Acknowledge

BEL

0007

7

Bell

BS

0008

8

Backspace

HT

0009

9

Horizontal tabulation

LF

000A

10

Line feed

VT

000B

11

Vertical tabulation

FF

000C

12

Form feed

CR

000D

13

Carriage return

SO

000E

14

Shift out

SI

000F

15

Shift in

DLE

0010

16

Data link escape

DC1

0011

17

Device control 1

DC2

0012

18

Device control 2

DC3

0013

19

Device control 3

DC4

0014

20

Device control 4

NAK

0015

21

Negative acknowledge

SYN

0016

22

Synchronous idle

ETB

0017

23

End of transmission block

CAN

0018

24

Cancel

EM

0019

25

End of medium

SUB

001A

26

Substitute

ESC

001B

27

Escape

FS

001C

28

File separator

GS

001D

29

Group separator

RS

001E ...

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