ASCII/ANSI Character codes?

i was wondering where i can get an actuall list of all of these codes or an explanation of them.

i understand that holding down Alt + code will input the corresponding symbol and that yo uneed to put preceeding 0

however the only lists i can find only cover the first 256 characters. but i can type Alt + 79456123 and get "}" why does that work and even on a smaller scale Alt + 1234 gives an E character with an acute on it.

thanks

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i thought the same thing however if i type

79456123 i get the brace and if i type 89456123 i get a superscript 1 so the effect is happening further than the last 3 digits which is what was confusing me

You need to look at unicode, ASCII only covers the 256 characters, Unicode however uses 4 Bytes (32 bits) to store the character information (as opposed to two) and so can store mush more.

As for a list of the characters, a good place to start would be http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/ it's the most comprehensive list I could find on-line.

That isn't ASCII you are getting, it's unicode. Ascii only holds 256, because it is 8 bytes. Unicode is much bigger, and allows the coding of letters and characters from different languages.

The alt code you gave for brace symbol ({) is incorrect. You are only getting the brace for the brace symbol because the actual code is alt+123 ({) and that long number is only taking effect on the last three digits.

See:

http://www.usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes...

ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning it uses patterns of seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent each character. When ASCII was introduced, many computers used eight-bit bytes (groups of bits), also called octets, as the native data type. In seven-bit ASCII encoding, the eighth bit was commonly used as a parity bit for error checking on communication lines or for other device-specific functions. Machines that did not use parity checking typically set the eighth bit to 0.

ASCII has been incorporated into the Unicode character set as the first 128 symbols, so the ASCII characters have the same numeric codes in both sets. This allows UTF-8 to be backward compatible with ASCII, a significant advantage.

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long time ago and now the non-printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. If someone says they want your CV however in ASCII format, all this means is they want 'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the raw format that any computer can understand. This is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues. Notepad.exe creates ASCII text, or in MS Word you can save a file as 'text only'

Work on ASCII began in 1960. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963,[2] a major revision in 1967, and the most recent update in 1986. It currently defines codes for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing, mostly obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed, and 94 are printable characters (excluding the space).

Ron