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RTF Pocket Guide
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RTF Pocket Guide

by Sean M. Burke
July 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
158 pages
3h 6m
English
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Chapter 4. Reference Tables

ASCII-RTF Character Chart

Table 4-1 shows the main printable characters you can access in RTF, as defined by the ANSI character set (also known as Code Page 1252, which is basically Latin-1 with some characters added between 128 and 159). Accessing Unicode characters is explained in the Character Formatting section of Chapter 1.

Note that while RTF escapes (\'xx) are valid for all characters, the only characters that have to be escaped are these three characters: {, }, and \, plus all the characters over code 127.

Table 4-1. ASCII-RTF character chart

ASCII code

RTF escape

Character

Character name

0–31

  

Control characters; do not use

32

\’20

 

Space

33

\’21

!

Exclamation mark

34

\’22

"

Double quote

35

\’23

#

Number

36

\’24

$

Dollar

37

\’25

%

Percent

38

\’26

&

Ampersand

39

\’27

'

Apostrophe

40

\’28

(

Left parenthesis

41

\’29

)

Right parenthesis

42

\’2a

*

Asterisk

43

\’2b

+

Plus sign

44

\’2c

,

Comma

45

\’2d

-

Hyphen (use \_ for nonbreaking hyphen)

46

\’2e

.

Period

47

\’2f

/

Slash

48–57

\’30–\’39

0–9

Digits 0–9

58

\’3a

:

Colon

59

\’3b

;

Semicolon

60

\’3c

<

Less-than sign

61

\’3d

=

Equals sign

62

\’3e

>

Greater-than sign

63

\’3f

?

Question mark

64

\’40

@

Commercial at sign

65

\’41

A

 

66

\’42

B

 

67

\’43

C

 

68

\’44

D

 

69

\’45

E

 

70

\’46

F

 

71

\’47

G

 

72

\’48

H

 

73

\’49

I

 

74

\’4a

J

 

75

\’4b

K

 

76

\’4c

L

 

77

\’4d

M

 

78

\’4e

N

 

79

\’4f

O

 

80

\’50

P

 

81

\’51

Q

 

82

\’52

R

 

83

\’53

S

 

84

\’54

T

 

85

\’55

U

 

86

\’56

V

 

87

\’57

W

 

88

\’58

X

 

89

\’59

Y

 

90

\’5a

Z

 

91

\’5b

[

Left square bracket

92

\’5c

\

Backslash

93

\’5d

]

Right square bracket

94

\’5e

^

Caret

95

\’5f

_

Underscore

96

\’60

`

Grave accent

97

\’61

a

 

98

\’62

b

 

99

\’63

c

 

100

\’64

d

 

101

\’65

e

 

102

\’66

f

 

103

\’67

g

 

104

\’68 ...

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