Looking for Chart of Ascii Characters

Hi Everybody! <Voice of Dr. Nick on the Simpsons>

<In a dimutive crying plea>  "Help."
I'm looking for a chart of all possible text and ascii characters as
well as the numbers to type in on the numeric keypad when the ALT key is
held down to achieve them. All search attempts have failed. This is my
last recourse.
I apologize if this is in the wrong ng. If this is indeed the case,
please direct me to the proper ng. TIA

The JeePster - High Priest of the Great Goddess Gabrielle's Honor
                                                             Defenders

P.S. I'm also looking for a cool sig. of a magician (High Priest) in a
robe or cloak maybe with a staff and/or performing magic. 6 lines or
less is optimal but smaller is better as long as it does not compromise
the detail (looks are more important than size). Any improvisation is
gladly welcome :).
Millions of thank you's for your help. I appreciate it alot.

Please e-mail me any responses. Thank you for your support. :-)

:p~~~~                                                            GGGHD

JeePster (sba...@erols.com) wrote --

> I'm looking for a chart of all possible text and ascii characters as
> well as the numbers to type in on the numeric keypad when the ALT key is
> held down to achieve them. All search attempts have failed. This is my
> last recourse.

You contradict yourself. Any character for which you must use Alt is by
definition a non-ASCII character. (You *can* use Alt for ASCII
characters, but even krazy keyboarders like me prefer the QWERTY keys.)
One ASCII chart comin' up....

  ASCII Characters and Their Assigned Values in Decimal and Hexadecimal
        .-----------------------------------------------------------------.
        |space  !   "   #   $   %   &   '   (   )   *   +   ,   -   .   / |
2n hex* |  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47 |
        |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
        |   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   :   ;   <   =   >   ? |
3n hex  |  48  49  50  51  52  53  54  55  56  57  58  59  60  61  62  63 |
        |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
        |   @   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O |
4n hex  |  64  65  66  67  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77  78  79 |
        |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
        |   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z   [   \   ]   ^   _ |
5n hex  |  80  81  82  83  84  85  86  87  88  89  90  91  92  93  94  95 |
        |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
        |   `   a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m   n   o |
6n hex  |  96  97  98  99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 |
        |-----------------------------------------------------------------'
        |   p   q   r   s   t   u   v   w   x   y   z   {   |   }   ~ |
7n hex  | 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 |
        `-------------------------------------------------------------'
     *n  =  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   A   B   C   D   E   F

The following characters might display differently on a very small number
of machines (the names I give are what these characters SHOULD display as): 

   # $ @ -- number sign, dollar sign, commercial "at" symbol
   [ \ ] -- left square bracket, backslash, right square bracket
   ^ ` ~ -- circumflex accent, grave accent, tilde
   { | } -- left brace (or "curly bracket"), vertical bar, right brace

Dan Strychalski -- dski at cameonet cameo com tw

dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.twx (Dan Strychalski) writes:
>JeePster (sba...@erols.com) wrote --
>
>> I'm looking for a chart of all possible text and ascii characters as...

>You contradict yourself. Any character for which you must use Alt is by
>definition a non-ASCII character. (You *can* use Alt for ASCII
>characters, but even krazy keyboarders like me prefer the QWERTY keys.)
>One ASCII chart comin' up....

>  ASCII Characters and Their Assigned Values in Decimal and Hexadecimal


NAME
     ascii - map of ASCII character set

SYNOPSIS
     cat /usr/pub/ascii

DESCRIPTION
     /usr/pub/ascii is a map of the ASCII character  set,  to  be
     printed as needed.  It contains octal and hexadecimal values
     for each character.  While not  included  in  that  file,  a
     chart of decimal values is also shown here.
     Octal - Character

     |000 NUL|001 SOH|002 STX|003 ETX|004 EOT|005 ENQ|006 ACK|007 BEL|
     |010 BS |011 HT |012 NL |013 VT |014 NP |015 CR |016 SO |017 SI |
     |020 DLE|021 DC1|022 DC2|023 DC3|024 DC4|025 NAK|026 SYN|027 ETB|
     |030 CAN|031 EM |032 SUB|033 ESC|034 FS |035 GS |036 RS |037 US |
     |040 SP |041  ! |042  " |043  # |044  $ |045  % |046  & |047  ' |
     |050  ( |051  ) |052  * |053  + |054  , |055  - |056  . |057  / |
     |060  0 |061  1 |062  2 |063  3 |064  4 |065  5 |066  6 |067  7 |
     |070  8 |071  9 |072  : |073  ; |074  < |075  = |076  > |077  ? |
     |100  @ |101  A |102  B |103  C |104  D |105  E |106  F |107  G |
     |110  H |111  I |112  J |113  K |114  L |115  M |116  N |117  O |
     |120  P |121  Q |122  R |123  S |124  T |125  U |126  V |127  W |
     |130  X |131  Y |132  Z |133  [ |134  \ |135  ] |136  ^ |137  _ |
     |140  ` |141  a |142  b |143  c |144  d |145  e |146  f |147  g |
     |150  h |151  i |152  j |153  k |154  l |155  m |156  n |157  o |
     |160  p |161  q |162  r |163  s |164  t |165  u |166  v |167  w |
     |170  x |171  y |172  z |173  { |174  | |175  } |176  ~ |177 DEL|

     Hexadecimal - Character

     | 00 NUL| 01 SOH| 02 STX| 03 ETX| 04 EOT| 05 ENQ| 06 ACK| 07 BEL|
     | 08 BS | 09 HT | 0A NL | 0B VT | 0C NP | 0D CR | 0E SO | 0F SI |
     | 10 DLE| 11 DC1| 12 DC2| 13 DC3| 14 DC4| 15 NAK| 16 SYN| 17 ETB|
     | 18 CAN| 19 EM | 1A SUB| 1B ESC| 1C FS | 1D GS | 1E RS | 1F US |
     | 20 SP | 21  ! | 22  " | 23  # | 24  $ | 25  % | 26  & | 27  ' |
     | 28  ( | 29  ) | 2A  * | 2B  + | 2C  , | 2D  - | 2E  . | 2F  / |
     | 30  0 | 31  1 | 32  2 | 33  3 | 34  4 | 35  5 | 36  6 | 37  7 |
     | 38  8 | 39  9 | 3A  : | 3B  ; | 3C  < | 3D  = | 3E  > | 3F  ? |
     | 40  @ | 41  A | 42  B | 43  C | 44  D | 45  E | 46  F | 47  G |
     | 48  H | 49  I | 4A  J | 4B  K | 4C  L | 4D  M | 4E  N | 4F  O |
     | 50  P | 51  Q | 52  R | 53  S | 54  T | 55  U | 56  V | 57  W |
     | 58  X | 59  Y | 5A  Z | 5B  [ | 5C  \ | 5D  ] | 5E  ^ | 5F  _ |
     | 60  ` | 61  a | 62  b | 63  c | 64  d | 65  e | 66  f | 67  g |
     | 68  h | 69  i | 6A  j | 6B  k | 6C  l | 6D  m | 6E  n | 6F  o |
     | 70  p | 71  q | 72  r | 73  s | 74  t | 75  u | 76  v | 77  w |
     | 78  x | 79  y | 7A  z | 7B  { | 7C  | | 7D  } | 7E  ~ | 7F DEL|


     Decimal - Character

     |  0 NUL|  1 SOH|  2 STX|  3 ETX|  4 EOT|  5 ENQ|  6 ACK|  7 BEL|
     |  8 BS |  9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI |
     | 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB|
     | 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US |
     | 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |
     | 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |
     | 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |
     | 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |
     | 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |
     | 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |
     | 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |
     | 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |
     | 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |
     |104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |
     |112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |
     |120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |127 DEL|

FILES
     /usr/pub/ascii      Online chart of  octal  and  hexadecimal
                         values for the ASCII character set.

>The following characters might display differently on a very small number
>of machines (the names I give are what these characters SHOULD display as): 
>
>   # $ @ -- number sign, dollar sign, commercial "at" symbol
>   [ \ ] -- left square bracket, backslash, right square bracket
>   ^ ` ~ -- circumflex accent, grave accent, tilde
>   { | } -- left brace (or "curly bracket"), vertical bar, right brace

On 3 May 1997 09:29:38 GMT, dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.twx (Dan
Strychalski) wrote:

~|>You contradict yourself. Any character for which you must use Alt is by
~|>definition a non-ASCII character. 

You must be reading different books to me :).ASCII or American
Standard Code for Information Interchange covers more characters than
those displayed by the standard QWERTY keyboard.  It covers all the
codes from decimal 0 - decimal 255.  0-32 are control codes and
definately have no place in this newsgroup.  Some of the others in the
range of 33-255 do not display on all systems.  It depends on which
character sets are supported by your system.

I assume that your definition of ASCII comes from this newsgroup and
in that context is also valid. :))

cya :(

Dassa

Many apologies. Once again I have let myself down by not accurately
conveying the meaning behind my words.
I shall start over....

Hi,
I am in search of a chart that gives a list of all possible characters
within the text realm as well as the Exact keyboard input required to
achieve this. An example of this would be a square � . I stumbled on
this by chance. The keyboard input to achieve the � is 0911 with the ALT
key held down. I have seen quite a few others such as a tre' kewl smiley
face and a heart but I have yet to discover the required typing need to
produce them. 







Dassa wrote:
> 
> On 3 May 1997 09:29:38 GMT, dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.twx (Dan
> Strychalski) wrote:
> 
> ~|>You contradict yourself. Any character for which you must use Alt is by
> ~|>definition a non-ASCII character.
> 
> You must be reading different books to me :).ASCII or American
> Standard Code for Information Interchange covers more characters than
> those displayed by the standard QWERTY keyboard.  It covers all the
> codes from decimal 0 - decimal 255.  0-32 are control codes and
> definately have no place in this newsgroup.  Some of the others in the
> range of 33-255 do not display on all systems.  It depends on which
> character sets are supported by your system.
> 
> I assume that your definition of ASCII comes from this newsgroup and
> in that context is also valid. :))
> 
> cya :(
> 
> Dassa

On Sun, 04 May 1997 00:41:28 -0400, JeePster <sba...@erols.com>
wrote:

~|>
~|>Many apologies. Once again I have let myself down by not accurately
~|>conveying the meaning behind my words.
~|>I shall start over....

The chart I have is in the DOS Programmer's Reference 2nd edition
Dettmann.  Published by the Que Corporation copyright 1989.

Why not create your own.  Just open up a text editor and using the alt
key tap out the numbers from 32-255 on the numeric keypad.

For example

33 !
34 "
.
.
171 �
172 �

And so on and so on...

All the best.

cya :(

Dassa

> 
> JeePster (sba...@erols.com) wrote --
> 
> > I am in search of a chart that gives a list of all possible characters
> > within the text realm as well as the Exact keyboard input required to
> > achieve this. An example of this would be a square � . I stumbled on
> > this by chance. The keyboard input to achieve the � is 0911 with the ALT
> > key held down. I have seen quite a few others such as a tre' kewl smiley
> > face and a heart but I have yet to discover the required typing need to
> > produce them.
>


Why not try the simple approach and write a small program that will go
through the numbers 0 to 255 (or 127) and try to write them both as
numbers and as characters and see what happens...


I have written a small C program that does that (how you compile it is
different on different computers. On the unix system here at my school I
write  gcc program_name.c -o program_name )


[begin C program code example 1]

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  int i;

  for (i = 0; i <= 255; i++)
    {  printf("%d  %c\n", i, i);
    }
}

[end C program code example 1]




If you prefer to have the numbers as hexadecimal instead of decimal you
can use this code:


[begin C program code example 2]

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  int i;

  for (i = 0; i <= 255; i++)
    {  printf("%0x  %c\n", i, i);
    }
}

[end C program code example 2]




(after a couple of tries you may find it necessary to "screen out" some
numbers by "counting past" them. In the example below I have screened
out number 15:



[begin C program code example 3]

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  int i;

  for (i = 0; i <= 255; i++)
    { if (i == 15) i++;         /* don't show number 15 */
      printf("%d  %c\n", i, i);
    }
}
     
[end C program code example 3]

when I run this the program will show the numbers ...13, 14, 16, 17...)



I hope this helps.

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
( llizard's animation site:  http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )

JeePster (sba...@erols.com) wrote --

> I am in search of a chart that gives a list of all possible characters
> within the text realm as well as the Exact keyboard input required to
> achieve this. An example of this would be a square � . I stumbled on
> this by chance. The keyboard input to achieve the � is 0911 with the ALT
> key held down. I have seen quite a few others such as a tre' kewl smiley
> face and a heart but I have yet to discover the required typing need to
> produce them.

Well, I've got about 5,000 characters in the text realm when I'm running
my Chinese system, but I don't think you want those. What characters are
available in the text realm on your machine depends on what kind of
machine it is and what software you are using. Since you mention an Alt
key and a square that isn't a square on my screen, I figger you're using
an IBM-type machine and the notorious W-----s operating environment.

The square is Murkystuff Clobberation's way of telling you there ain't no
character for the value you typed in with Alt and the numeric keypad.
Perhaps you did tap in 0911, but what reached me here was a byte with the
value 143 -- a value that, like 128, 129, 141, 142, 144, 157, and 158,
has no character assigned to it in the usual W-----s character set.

Smileys, hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds are some of the characters
that IBM thought it would be kewl to assign to the values in the control
range (0-31) back when the IBM Personal Computer was being designed. I
haven't got a table of those that I can post here, and I don't know if
you can use them in W-----s, but I do have an ASCIIfied table of
characters that you can type in with Alt and the numeric keypad in most
W-----s ware. It'll take some figgerin' out, but you asked for it....

I .--8nh---.--9nh---.--Anh---.--Bnh---. n .--Cnh---.--Dnh---.--Enh---.--Fnh---.
S |    128 |    144 |nbs 160 |deg 176 | 0 | A` 192 | -D 208 | a` 224 | d- 240 |
O |    129 |    145 |iex 161 |+/- 177 | 1 | A' 193 | N~ 209 | a' 225 | n~ 241 |
  |    130 |    146 | c| 162 | ^2 178 | 2 | A^ 194 | O` 210 | a^ 226 | o` 242 |
8 |    131 |    147 |stg 163 | ^3 179 | 3 | A~ 195 | O' 211 | a~ 227 | o' 243 |
8 |    132 |    148 |cur 164 |acu 180 | 4 | A" 196 | O^ 212 | a" 228 | o^ 244 |
5 |    133 |    149 |yen 165 | mu 181 | 5 | Ao 197 | O~ 213 | ao 229 | o~ 245 |
9 |    134 |    150 | |  166 |par 182 | 6 | AE 198 | O" 214 | ae 230 | o" 246 |
| |    135 |    151 |sec 167 |dot 183 | 7 | C, 199 |mul 215 | c, 231 |div 247 |
1 |    136 |    152 |uml 168 |ced 184 | 8 | E` 200 | O/ 216 | e` 232 | o/ 248 |
  |    137 |    153 |(C) 169 | ^1 185 | 9 | E' 201 | U` 217 | e' 233 | u` 249 |
  |    138 |    154 | ^a 170 | ^o 186 | A | E^ 202 | U' 218 | e^ 234 | u' 250 |
  |    139 |    155 | << 171 | >> 187 | B | E" 203 | U^ 219 | e" 235 | u^ 251 |
  |    140 |    156 |not 172 |1/4 188 | C | I` 204 | U" 220 | i` 236 | u" 252 |
  |    141 |    157 |sof 173 |1/2 189 | D | I' 205 | Y' 221 | i' 237 | y' 253 |
  |    142 |    158 |(R) 174 |3/4 190 | E | I^ 206 | |P 222 | i^ 238 | |p 254 |
  |    143 |    159 |mac 175 |iqu 191 | F | I" 207 |Gss 223 | i" 239 | y" 255 |
  `----(Illegal)---- -----Special-----'   `----Uppercase---- ----Lowercase----'
  nbs=non-break space; iex/iqu=inverted !/?; st(erlin)g; cur(rency); sec(tion);
  |=broken bar; uml(aut); ^+char=superscripted char; sof(t hyphen); acu(te
  accent); mac(ron); par(agraph); (raised) dot; ced(illa); char+[`'^~"o,/]=
  char+diacritic; AE/ae=AE/ae ligature; -D/d-, |P/|p=Icelandic eth, thorn;
  mul(tiplication sign); div(ision sign); Gss = German "sharp" (double) s.

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
>>
>> JeePster (sba...@erols.com) wrote --
>>
>>> I am in search of a chart that gives a list of all possible
>>> characters within the text realm as well as the Exact keyboard
>>> input required to
>>> achieve this. An example of this would be a square. I stumbled
>>> on this by chance. The keyboard input to achieve the �is 0911
>>> with the ALT key held down. I have seen quite a few others such
>>> as a tre' kewl smiley face and a heart but I have yet to discover >>> the required typing need to produce them.
>>
> 
> Why not try the simple approach and write a small program that will go
> through the numbers 0 to 255 (or 127) and try to write them both as
> numbers and as characters and see what happens...
> 
> I have written a small C program that does that (how you compile it
> is different on different computers. On the unix system here at my 
> school write  gcc program_name.c -o program_name )
> 
> [begin C program code example 1]
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> main()
> {
>   int i;
> 
>   for (i = 0; i <= 255; i++)
>     {  printf("%d  %c\n", i, i);
>     }
> }
> 
> [end C program code example 1]
> 
> If you prefer to have the numbers as hexadecimal instead of decimal you
> can use this code:
> 
> [begin C program code example 2]
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> main()
> {
>   int i;
> 
>   for (i = 0; i <= 255; i++)
>     {  printf("%0x  %c\n", i, i);
>     }
> }
> 
> [end C program code example 2]
> 
> (after a couple of tries you may find it necessary to "screen out" 
> some numbers by "counting past" them. In the example below I have 
> screened out number 15:
> 
> [begin C program code example 3]
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> main()
> {
>   int i;
> 
>   for (i = 0; i <= 255; i++)
>     { if (i == 15) i++;         /* don't show number 15 */
>       printf("%d  %c\n", i, i);
>     }
> }
> 
> [end C program code example 3]
> 
> when I run this the program will show the numbers ...13, 14, 16, 
> 17...)
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> --
> :)
> Veronica Karlsson
> (e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
> (llizard's animation site:  http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )
Instead of screening out certain numbers, you might also just start at 
32, anything below that is a control character. You might as well stop
at 127 too, since that's where ascii ends, anything above that will
show different characters on different systems (DOS or UNIX).

Here's a program that does exactly the same as the above, but in pascal:

[begin pascal source]

program show_chars(input,output);

var x :  integer;

begin
  for x := 32 to 255 do begin
    writeln(x,' ',chr(x));
  end;
end.

[end pascal source]

On my unix sys I compile this with: pc progname.p -o progname
When running TurboPascal, you might need to include something.
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