UTF-8 Basic Latin

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Basic Latin / ASCII

Basic Latin is the same character set as the original ASCII character set.

ASCII was the first character set (encoding standard) used between computers on the Internet.

Both ISO-8859-1 (default in HTML 4) and UTF-8 (default in HTML 5), are built on ASCII.

Example

Johnny "Bang" Johnson
Johnny "Bang" Johnson
Johnny "Bang" Johnson
Johnny "Bang" Johnson

Result

Johnny "Bang" Johnson
Johnny "Bang" Johnson
Johnny "Bang" Johnson
Johnny "Bang" Johnson

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Hex 0000-007F / Dec 0-127

The characters in the range 0 - 31, + 127 were designed to control hardware devices. See below.

Char	Dec	Hex	Name
	32	0020	SPACE
!	33	0021	EXCLAMATION MARK
"	34	0022	QUOTATION (")
#	35	0023	NUMBER SIGN
$	36	0024	DOLLAR SIGN
%	37	0025	PERCENT SIGN
&	38	0026	AMPERSAND (&)
'	39	0027	APOSTROPHE
(	40	0028	LEFT PARENTHESIS
)	41	0029	RIGHT PARENTHESIS
*	42	002A	ASTERISK
+	43	002B	PLUS SIGN
,	44	002C	COMMA
-	45	002D	HYPHEN-MINUS
.	46	002E	FULL STOP
/	47	002F	SOLIDUS
0	48	0030	DIGIT ZERO
1	49	0031	DIGIT ONE
2	50	0032	DIGIT TWO
3	51	0033	DIGIT THREE
4	52	0034	DIGIT FOUR
5	53	0035	DIGIT FIVE
6	54	0036	DIGIT SIX
7	55	0037	DIGIT SEVEN
8	56	0038	DIGIT EIGHT
9	57	0039	DIGIT NINE
:	58	003A	COLON
;	59	003B	SEMICOLON
<	60	003C	LESS-THAN (<)
=	61	003D	EQUALS SIGN
>	62	003E	GREATER-THAN (>)
?	63	003F	QUESTION MARK
@	64	0040	COMMERCIAL AT
A	65	0041	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
B	66	0042	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
C	67	0043	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
D	68	0044	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
E	69	0045	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
F	70	0046	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
G	71	0047	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
H	72	0048	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
I	73	0049	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
J	74	004A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
K	75	004B	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
L	76	004C	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
M	77	004D	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
N	78	004E	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
O	79	004F	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
P	80	0050	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
Q	81	0051	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
R	82	0052	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
S	83	0053	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
T	84	0054	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U	85	0055	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
V	86	0056	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
W	87	0057	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
X	88	0058	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
Y	89	0059	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
Z	90	005A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
[	91	005B	LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
\	92	005C	REVERSE SOLIDUS
]	93	005D	RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
^	94	005E	CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
_	95	005F	LOW LINE
`	96	0060	GRAVE ACCENT
a	97	0061	LATIN SMALL LETTER A
b	98	0062	LATIN SMALL LETTER B
c	99	0063	LATIN SMALL LETTER C
d	100	0064	LATIN SMALL LETTER D
e	101	0065	LATIN SMALL LETTER E
f	102	0066	LATIN SMALL LETTER F
g	103	0067	LATIN SMALL LETTER G
h	104	0068	LATIN SMALL LETTER H
i	105	0069	LATIN SMALL LETTER I
j	106	006A	LATIN SMALL LETTER J
k	107	006B	LATIN SMALL LETTER K
l	108	006C	LATIN SMALL LETTER L
m	109	006D	LATIN SMALL LETTER M
n	110	006E	LATIN SMALL LETTER N
o	111	006F	LATIN SMALL LETTER O
p	112	0070	LATIN SMALL LETTER P
q	113	0071	LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
r	114	0072	LATIN SMALL LETTER R
s	115	0073	LATIN SMALL LETTER S
t	116	0074	LATIN SMALL LETTER T
u	117	0075	LATIN SMALL LETTER U
v	118	0076	LATIN SMALL LETTER V
w	119	0077	LATIN SMALL LETTER W
x	120	0078	LATIN SMALL LETTER X
y	121	0079	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
z	122	007A	LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
{	123	007B	LEFT CURLY BRACKET
\|	124	007C	VERTICAL LINE
}	125	007D	RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
~	126	007E	TILDE

Device Control Characters

The ASCII control characters (range 00-31, plus 127) were designed to control hardware devices.

The ASCII control characters is not considered a part of UTF-8.

Control characters have nothing to do inside an HTML document.

Char	Number	Description
NUL	00	null character
SOH	01	start of header
STX	02	start of text
ETX	03	end of text
EOT	04	end of transmission
ENQ	05	enquiry
ACK	06	acknowledge
BEL	07	bell (ring)
BS	08	backspace
HT	09	horizontal tab
LF	10	line feed
VT	11	vertical tab
FF	12	form feed
CR	13	carriage return
SO	14	shift out
SI	15	shift in
DLE	16	data link escape
DC1	17	device control 1
DC2	18	device control 2
DC3	19	device control 3
DC4	20	device control 4
NAK	21	negative acknowledge
SYN	22	synchronize
ETB	23	end transmission block
CAN	24	cancel
EM	25	end of medium
SUB	26	substitute
ESC	27	escape
FS	28	file separator
GS	29	group separator
RS	30	record separator
US	31	unit separator

DEL	127	delete (rubout)