Code page 850 (Latin-1 - Western European languages)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a widely used character encoding system introduced in 1963.
The original character set, which is now referred as the standard character set was initially composed of 128 characters (7-bit code). The first 32 characters are control characters (also called non-printable characters), which are used to control data streams as well as devices such as printers. It later was expanded to support 256 characters (8-bit code) in order to provide language specific characters, various symbols, as well as box-drawing characters: elements used for presentation purposes, allowing to draw different kind of frames and boxes. The characters in the 128-255 range are referred to as extended ASCII.
Code page 850 is the code page used to write Western European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Only the extended character set differs from the original code page, both the control characters and the standard character set being plain ASCII.
The character table below is showing a pixel precise graphical representation for each character, alongside with a text description.
Control characters (0 - 31):
Dec | Hex | Char | Description | Dec | Hex | Char | Description |
0 | 0 | NUL (Null) | 16 | 10 | DLE (Data Link Escape) | ||
1 | 1 | SOH (Start of Header) | 17 | 11 | DC1 (Device Control 1) | ||
2 | 2 | STX (Start of Text) | 18 | 12 | DC2 (Device Control 2) | ||
3 | 3 | ETX (End of Text) | 19 | 13 | DC3 (Device Control 3) | ||
4 | 4 | EOT (End of Transmission) | 20 | 14 | DC4 (Device Control 4) | ||
5 | 5 | ENQ (Enquiry) | 21 | 15 | NAK (Negative Acknowledge) | ||
6 | 6 | ACK (Acknowledge) | 22 | 16 | SYN (Synchronous Idle) | ||
7 | 7 | BEL (Bell) | 23 | 17 | ETB (End of Transmission Block) | ||
8 | 8 | BS (BackSpace) | 24 | 18 | CAN (Cancel) | ||
9 | 9 | HT (Horizontal Tabulation) | 25 | 19 | EM (End of Medium) | ||
10 | A | LF (Line Feed) | 26 | 1A | SUB (Substitute) | ||
11 | B | VT (Vertical Tabulation) | 27 | 1B | ESC (Escape) | ||
12 | C | FF (Form Feed) | 28 | 1C | FS (File Separator) | ||
13 | D | CR (Carriage Return) | 29 | 1D | GS (Group Separator) | ||
14 | E | SO (Shift Out) | 30 | 1E | RS (Record Separator) | ||
15 | F | SI (Shift In) | 31 | 1F | US (Unit Separator) |
Standard character set (32 - 127):
Dec | Hex | Char | Description | Dec | Hex | Char | Description |
32 | 20 | Space | 80 | 50 | Upper case P | ||
33 | 21 | Exclamation mark | 81 | 51 | Upper case Q | ||
34 | 22 | Quotation Mark | 82 | 52 | Upper case R | ||
35 | 23 | Hash | 83 | 53 | Upper case S | ||
36 | 24 | Dollar | 84 | 54 | Upper case T | ||
37 | 25 | Percent | 85 | 55 | Upper case U | ||
38 | 26 | Ampersand | 86 | 56 | Upper case V | ||
39 | 27 | Apostrophe | 87 | 57 | Upper case W | ||
40 | 28 | Open bracket | 88 | 58 | Upper case X | ||
41 | 29 | Close bracket | 89 | 59 | Upper case Y | ||
42 | 2A | Asterisk | 90 | 5A | Upper case Z | ||
43 | 2B | Plus | 91 | 5B | Open square bracket | ||
44 | 2C | Comma | 92 | 5C | Backslash | ||
45 | 2D | Dash | 93 | 5D | Close square bracket | ||
46 | 2E | Full stop | 94 | 5E | Caret | ||
47 | 2F | Slash | 95 | 5F | Underscore | ||
48 | 30 | Zero | 96 | 60 | Grave accent | ||
49 | 31 | One | 97 | 61 | Lower case a | ||
50 | 32 | Two | 98 | 62 | Lower case b | ||
51 | 33 | Three | 99 | 63 | Lower case c | ||
52 | 34 | Four | 100 | 64 | Lower case d | ||
53 | 35 | Five | 101 | 65 | Lower case e | ||
54 | 36 | Six | 102 | 66 | Lower case f | ||
55 | 37 | Seven | 103 | 67 | Lower case g | ||
56 | 38 | Eight | 104 | 68 | Lower case h | ||
57 | 39 | Nine | 105 | 69 | Lower case i | ||
58 | 3A | Colon | 106 | 6A | Lower case j | ||
59 | 3B | Semicolon | 107 | 6B | Lower case k | ||
60 | 3C | Less than | 108 | 6C | Lower case l | ||
61 | 3D | Equals sign | 109 | 6D | Lower case m | ||
62 | 3E | Greater than | 110 | 6E | Lower case n | ||
63 | 3F | Question mark | 111 | 6F | Lower case o | ||
64 | 40 | At | 112 | 70 | Lower case p | ||
65 | 41 | Upper case A | 113 | 71 | Lower case q | ||
66 | 42 | Upper case B | 114 | 72 | Lower case r | ||
67 | 43 | Upper case C | 115 | 73 | Lower case s | ||
68 | 44 | Upper case D | 116 | 74 | Lower case t | ||
69 | 45 | Upper case E | 117 | 75 | Lower case u | ||
70 | 46 | Upper case F | 118 | 76 | Lower case v | ||
71 | 47 | Upper case G | 119 | 77 | Lower case w | ||
72 | 48 | Upper case H | 120 | 78 | Lower case x | ||
73 | 49 | Upper case I | 121 | 79 | Lower case y | ||
74 | 4A | Upper case J | 122 | 7A | Lower case z | ||
75 | 4B | Upper case K | 123 | 7B | Open brace | ||
76 | 4C | Upper case L | 124 | 7C | Pipe | ||
77 | 4D | Upper case M | 125 | 7D | Close brace | ||
78 | 4E | Upper case N | 126 | 7E | Tilde | ||
79 | 4F | Upper case O | 127 | 7F | Delete |
Extended character set (128 - 255):
Dec | Hex | Char | Description | Dec | Hex | Char | Description |
128 | 80 | Upper case C with cedilla | 192 | C0 | Box drawings light up and right | ||
129 | 81 | Lower case u with diaeresis | 193 | C1 | Box drawings light up and horizontal | ||
130 | 82 | Lower case e with acute | 194 | C2 | Box drawings light down and horizontal | ||
131 | 83 | Lower case a with circumflex | 195 | C3 | Box drawings light vertical and right | ||
132 | 84 | Lower case a with diaeresis | 196 | C4 | Box drawings light horizontal | ||
133 | 85 | Lower case a with grave | 197 | C5 | Box drawings light vertical and horizontal | ||
134 | 86 | Lower case a with ring above | 198 | C6 | Lower case A with tilde | ||
135 | 87 | Lower case c with cedilla | 199 | C7 | Upper case A with tilde | ||
136 | 88 | Lower case e with circumflex | 200 | C8 | Box drawings double up and right | ||
137 | 89 | Lower case e with diaeresis | 201 | C9 | Box drawings double down and right | ||
138 | 8A | Lower case e with grave | 202 | CA | Box drawings double up and horizontal | ||
139 | 8B | Lower case i with diaeresis | 203 | CB | Box drawings double down and horizontal | ||
140 | 8C | Lower case i with circumflex | 204 | CC | Box drawings double vertical and right | ||
141 | 8D | Lower case i with grave | 205 | CD | Box drawings double horizontal | ||
142 | 8E | Upper case A with diaeresis | 206 | CE | Box drawings double vertical and horizontal | ||
143 | 8F | Upper case A with ring above | 207 | CF | Currency sign | ||
144 | 90 | Upper case E with acute | 208 | D0 | Lower case eth | ||
145 | 91 | Lower case ae | 209 | D1 | Upper case ETH | ||
146 | 92 | Upper case AE | 210 | D2 | Upper case E with circumflex | ||
147 | 93 | Lower case o with circumflex | 211 | D3 | Upper case E with diaeresis | ||
148 | 94 | Lower case o with diaeresis | 212 | D4 | Upper case E with grave | ||
149 | 95 | Lower case o with grave | 213 | D5 | Lower case dotless i | ||
150 | 96 | Lower case u with circumflex | 214 | D6 | Upper case I with acute | ||
151 | 97 | Lower case u with grave | 215 | D7 | Upper case I with circumflex | ||
152 | 98 | Lower case y with diaeresis | 216 | D8 | Upper case I with diaeresis | ||
153 | 99 | Upper case O with diaeresis | 217 | D9 | Box drawings light up and left | ||
154 | 9A | Upper case U with diaeresis | 218 | DA | Box drawings light down and right | ||
155 | 9B | Lower case o with stroke | 219 | DB | Full block | ||
156 | 9C | Pound sign | 220 | DC | Lower half block | ||
157 | 9D | Upper case O with stroke | 221 | DD | Broken bar | ||
158 | 9E | Multiplication sign | 222 | DE | Upper case I with grave | ||
159 | 9F | Lower case f with hook | 223 | DF | Upper half block | ||
160 | A0 | Lower case a with acute | 224 | E0 | Upper case O with acute | ||
161 | A1 | Lower case i with acute | 225 | E1 | Lower case sharp s | ||
162 | A2 | Lower case o with acute | 226 | E2 | Upper case O with circumflex | ||
163 | A3 | Lower case u with acute | 227 | E3 | Upper case O with grave | ||
164 | A4 | Lower case n with tilde | 228 | E4 | Lower case o with tilde | ||
165 | A5 | Upper case N with tilde | 229 | E5 | Upper case O with tilde | ||
166 | A6 | Feminine ordinal indicator | 230 | E6 | Micro sign | ||
167 | A7 | Masculine ordinal indicator | 231 | E7 | Lower case thorn | ||
168 | A8 | Inverted question mark | 232 | E8 | Upper case thorn | ||
169 | A9 | Registered sign | 233 | E9 | Upper case U with acute | ||
170 | AA | Not sign | 234 | EA | Upper case U with circumflex | ||
171 | AB | Vulgar fraction one half | 235 | EB | Upper case U with grave | ||
172 | AC | Vulgar fraction one quarter | 236 | EC | Lower case y with acute | ||
173 | AD | Inverted exclamation mark | 237 | ED | Upper case Y with acute | ||
174 | AE | Left-pointing double angle quotation mark | 238 | EE | Macron | ||
175 | AF | Right-pointing double angle quotation mark | 239 | EF | Acute accent | ||
176 | B0 | Light shade | 240 | F0 | Soft hyphen | ||
177 | B1 | Medium shade | 241 | F1 | Plus-minus sign | ||
178 | B2 | Dark shade | 242 | F2 | Double low line | ||
179 | B3 | Box drawings light vertical | 243 | F3 | Vulgar fraction three quarters | ||
180 | B4 | Box drawings light vertical and left | 244 | F4 | Pilcrow sign | ||
181 | B5 | Upper case A with acute | 245 | F5 | Section sign | ||
182 | B6 | Upper case A with circumflex | 246 | F6 | Division sign | ||
183 | B7 | Upper case A with grave | 247 | F7 | Cedilla | ||
184 | B8 | Copyright sign | 248 | F8 | Degree sign | ||
185 | B9 | Box drawings double vertical and left | 249 | F9 | Diaeresis | ||
186 | BA | Box drawings double vertical | 250 | FA | Middle dot | ||
187 | BB | Box drawings double down and left | 251 | FB | Superscript one | ||
188 | BC | Box drawings double up and left | 252 | FC | Superscript three | ||
189 | BD | Cent sign | 253 | FD | Superscript two | ||
190 | BE | Yen sign | 254 | FE | Black square | ||
191 | BF | Box drawings light down and left | 255 | FF | No-break space |