ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is an encoding scheme. ASCII is typically used on Intel-based systems, such as Windows, and UNIX-based systems, such as Linux®.
ASCII was developed by a committee of the American Standards Association. The first ASCII standard was published in 1963.
Certain characters are the same on every ASCII code page. Those characters are called invariant characters. Other characters might vary from one code page to the next. These characters are called variant characters.
Some example ASCII CCSIDs are 367, 819, and 912.
The following table shows the code page for ASCII CCSID 367.
| 1st → 2nd↓ | 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 6- | 7- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0 | (sp) | 0 | @ | P | ` | p | ||
| -1 | ! | 1 | A | Q | a | q | ||
| -2 | " | 2 | B | R | b | r | ||
| -3 | # | 3 | C | S | c | s | ||
| -4 | $ | 4 | D | T | d | t | ||
| -5 | % | 5 | E | U | e | u | ||
| -6 | & | 6 | F | V | f | v | ||
| -7 | ' | 7 | G | W | g | w | ||
| -8 | ( | 8 | H | X | h | x | ||
| -9 | ) | 9 | I | Y | i | y | ||
| -A | * | : | J | Z | j | z | ||
| -B | + | ; | K | [ | k | { | ||
| -C | , | < | L | \ | l | | | ||
| -D | - | = | M | ] | m | } | ||
| -E | . | > | N | ^ | n | ~ | ||
| -F | / | ? | O | _ | o |