RTF Pocket Guide

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 ...