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ASCII Character Set

The ASCII character set is a subset of the nine single-byte ISO character sets (ISO

8859/1 through ISO 8859/9) that are used by SQL.

Table A-6 is a list of the characters in the ASCII character set along with their internal

representations and meanings.

Table A-6. ASCII Character Set (page 1 of 5)

Octal

Char Left Right Hex Dec Meaning Ordinal

NUL 000000 000000 00 0 Null 1

SOH 000400 000001 01 1 Start of heading 2

STX 001000 000002 02 2 Start of text 3

ETX 001400 000003 03 3 End of text 4

EOT 002000 000004 04 4 End of transmission 5

ENQ 002400 000005 05 5 Enquiry 6

ACK 003000 000006 06 6 Acknowledge 7

BEL 003400 000007 07 7 Bell 8

BS 004000 000010 8 8 Backspace 9

HT 004400 000011 9 9 Horizontal tabulation 10

LF 005000 000012 A 10 Line feed 11

VT 005400 000013 B 11 Vertical tabulation 12

FF 006000 000014 C 12 Form feed 13

CR 006400 000015 D 13 Carriage return 14

SO 007000 000016 E 14 Shift out 15

SI 007400 000017 F 15 Shift in 16

DLE 010000 000020 10 16 Data link escape 17

DC1 010400 000021 11 17 Device control 1 18

DC2 011000 000022 12 18 Device control 2 19

DC3 011400 000023 13 19 Device control 3 20

DC4 012000 000024 14 20 Device control 4 21

NAK 012400 000025 15 21 Negative acknowledge 22

SYN 013000 000026 16 22 Synchronous idle 23

ETB 013400 000027 17 23 End of transmission block 24

CAN 014000 000030 18 24 Cancel 25

EM 014400 000031 19 25 End of medium 26

SUB 015000 000032 1A 26 Substitute 27