What the Heck are ASCII Codes?

When your computer prints a character on the screen, it does not read that character as a character, but rather as a numerical code. There are 256 such codes, and each code corresponds to a character. Here, we will only deal with the ones displayed in HTML.

The format for printing an ASCII code on the screen is & # XXX ;. Why you may ask is this important to me? Well, certain characters are not printable, for example the < is seen by a HTML document as the beginning of a tag. Your web browser will not print it. The only way to print it onto the screen is to type it as ASCII Code.

Now to the code. Note that any unused number does not generate a printable character.

Character	ASCII Code	Character	ASCII Code	Character	ASCII Code
!	033	"	034	#	035
$	036	%	037	&	038
'	039	(	040	)	041
*	042	+	043	,	044
-	045	.	046	/	047
0	048	1	049	2	050
3	051	4	052	5	053
6	054	7	055	8	056
9	057	:	058	;	059
<	060	=	061	>	062
?	063	@	064	A	065
B	066	C	067	D	068
E	069	F	070	G	071
H	072	I	073	J	074
K	075	L	076	M	077
N	078	O	079	P	080
Q	081	R	082	S	083
T	084	U	085	V	086
W	087	X	088	Y	089
Z	090	[	091	\	092
]	093	^	094	_	095
`	096	a	097	b	098
c	099	d	100	e	101
f	102	g	103	h	104
i	105	j	106	k	107
l	108	m	109	n	110
o	111	p	112	q	113
r	114	s	115	t	116
u	117	v	118	w	119
x	120	y	121	z	122
{	123	\|	124	}	125
~	126	‚	130	ƒ	131
„	132	…	133	†	134
‡	135	ˆ	136	‰	137
Š	138	‹	139	Œ	140
‘	145	’	146	“	147
”	148	•	149	–	150
—	151	˜	152	™	153
š	154	›	155	œ	156
Ÿ	159		160	¡	161
¢	162	£	163	¤	164
¥	165	¦	166	§	167
¨	168	©	169	ª	170
«	171	¬	172		173
®	174	¯	175	°	176
±	177	²	178	³	179
´	180	µ	181	¶	182
·	183	¸	184	¹	185
º	186	»	187	¼	188
½	189	¾	190	¿	191
À	192	Á	193	Â	194
Ã	195	Ä	196	Å	197
Æ	198	Ç	199	È	200
É	201	Ê	202	Ë	203
Ì	204	Í	205	Î	206
Ï	207	Ð	208	Ñ	209
Ò	210	Ó	211	Ô	212
Õ	213	Ö	214	×	215
Ø	216	Ù	217	Ù	218
Û	219	Ü	220	Ý	221
Þ	222	ß	223	à	224
á	225	â	226	ã	227
ä	228	å	229	æ	230
ç	231	è	232	é	233
ê	234	ë	235	ì	236
í	237	î	238	ï	239
ð	240	ñ	241	ò	242
ó	243	ô	244	õ	245
ö	246	÷	247	ø	248
ù	249	ú	250	û	251
ü	252	ý	253	þ	254
ÿ	255

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