Enscribe Programmer's Guide

A ASCII Character Set
Table 12 shows the USA Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set, and
the corresponding code values in octal notation.
Table 12 ASCII Character Set
MeaningOctal Value (right byte)Octal Value (left byte)Character
Null000000000000NUL
Start of heading000001000400SOH
Start of text000002001000STX
End of text000003001400ETX
End of transmission000004002000EOT
Enquiry000005002400ENQ
Acknowledge000006003000ACK
Bell000007003400BEL
Backspace000010004000BS
Horizontal tabulation000011004400HT
Line feed000012005000LF
Vertical tabulation000013005400VT
Form feed000014006000FF
Carriage return000015006400CR
Shift out000016007000SO
Shift in000017007400SI
Data link escape000020010000DLE
Device control 1000021010400DC1
Device control 2000022011000DC2
Device control 3000023011400DC3
Device control 4000024012000DC4
Negative acknowledge000025012400NAK
Synchronous idle000026013000SYN
End of transmission block000027013400ETB
Cancel000030014000CAN
End of medium000031014400EM
Substitute000032015000SUB
Escape000033015400ESC
File separator000034016000FS
Group separator000035016400GS
Record separator000036017000RS
Unit separator000037017400US
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