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#include "MusimatTutorial.h"
MusimatTutorialSection(B0300) {
Print("*** B.3 Unicode (ASCII) Character Codes ***");
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B.3 Unicode (ASCII) Character Codes

The Universal Character Set, or Unicode, encodes virtually all of the world’s characters and even 
leaves room for characters not yet invented. A common subset of Unicode is ASCII (American Stan-
dard Code for Information Interchange), which was proposed by ANSI in 1963 and adopted in 1968. 
Recent standards that refer to ASCII include ISO-14962-1997 and ANSI-X3.4-1986 (R1997). The 
ASCII code includes many punctuation marks and white space such as blank, tab, and newline 
(which forces subsequent text onto a new line).

Table B.1 
ASCII Character Codes

        0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8       9       10      11      12      13      14      15
0       NUL     SOH     STX     ETX     EOT     ENQ     ACK     BEL     BS      HT      LF      VT      FF      CR      SO      SI
1       DLE     DC1     DC2     DC3     DC4     NAK     SYN     ETB     CAN     EM      SUB     ESC     FS      GS      RS      US
2       SP      !       "       #       $       %       &       '       (       )       *       +       ,       -       .       /
3       0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8       9       :       ;       <       =       >       ?
4       @       A       B       C       D       E       F       G       H       I       J       K       L       M       N       O
5       P       Q       R       S       T       U       V       W       X       Y       Z       [       \       ]       ^       _
6       `       a       b       c       d       e       f       g       h       i       j       k       l       m       n       o
7       p       q       r       s       t       u       v       w       x       y       z       {       |       }       ~       DEL


To obtain the integer ASCII number corresponding to a character, first find the row r and column 
c containing the character in table B.1. The ASCII number of this character is . For example, 
the character ‘A’ corresponds to .

The characters between 0 and 31 and DEL are reserved for functions that mostly don’t concern 
computer users, except for CR (carriage return) and LF (line feed). SP stands for the space 
character '  '. This is another one of those tables that you must learn if you expect your geek friends 
to take you seriously, so place a copy of table B.1 at your bedside or above the mantelpiece, where 
you can refer to it frequently.

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}}

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