Printable Characters
Printable Characters
Introduction
The following pages contain most printable characters in the ASCII 7-bit and ISO-8859-1 tables and some printable characters from the UTF-8 table for testing. I'm only listing printable characters, because I have no need for the control characters on my web pages (for example in ASCII 7-bit table the control characters are decimal values 0—31 and 127).
The maximum line length for the monospace font is 70 characters for ASCII 7-bit, ISO-8859-1, and UTF-8 character lists, so it should be easy to test your Usenet newsreader, email application or web forum in case you also like to try them for testing. The UTF-8 characters page has two lists: list 1 is for copy-paste testing and list 2 contains more information per line (HTML names and HTML numbers), so list 2 is not be suitable for testing as the lines probably brake in the wrong places.
All the characters (or symbols) have a description in case you don't see them correctly (because you are for example using an incorrect encoding setting in your application), so you can see if you need to adjust your settings. Your operating system also needs to have the correct language packs (if any) installed. If you don't have the correct encoding setting and/or you don't have the correct fonts and language packs installed and configured correctly you may see boxes or some other strange characters instead of the correct ones. And if you are using an old operating system (made some time in the 1990s or 1980s or before that) your operating system might not support all the characters listed on my pages.
ASCII 7-bit contains 128 symbols/codes.
ISO-8859-1 is one of the several competing 8-bit extensions for ASCII providing 128 additional characters to ASCII. Another variant is for example IBM PC code page 437 (CP437).
UTF-8 is an 8-bit variable-width encoding for Unicode. The first 256 code points for Unicode are identical to ISO-8859-1.
See also: Combining Characters with Unicode.
Tip: Finding Special Characters From a File
Try hex dump with TextWrangler (OS X) or some other editor.
Related Pages
Last modified: November 9th, 2013
Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)
URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/characters-printable