Tech Stuff - IA5 (ISO 646) Table

An apparently simple subject which turns out to be brutally complicated - well to our modest brains - so we have also produced a mercifully short character code overview.

IA5 - or more correctly - International Reference Alphabet No. 5 (IRA5) and previously International Alphabet No. 5 (ISO 646) is defined in ITU-T T.50 and is a 7-bit character code (but encoded as 8 bits). ASCII is the US implementation of IA5 - there are multiple other national versions.

IA5 is almost the same as ASCII - differences are marked with * in the name column for our mutual convenience and because they may not show on your screen. There are only two printable differences - currency (hex 24 - decimal 36) and Equivalence (tilde) (hex 7E - decimal 126). Print it, stick it on YOUR wall and save OUR bandwidth!!.

If you are into HTML things, for example, © etc.. Remember if it is not in this table it is not IA5 and probably not ASCII either.

Char	Hex	Dec	Name	Char	Hex	Dec	Name
NUL	00	0	Null	@	40	64	Commercial At
TC1	01	1	*	A	41	65
TC2	02	2	*	B	42	66
TC3	03	3	*	C	43	67
TC4	04	4	*	D	44	68
TC5	05	5	*	E	45	69
TC6	06	6	*	F	46	70
BEL	07	7	Bell	G	47	71
BS	08	8	Backspace	H	48	72
HT	09	9	Horizontal Tab	I	49	73
LF	0A	10	Line Feed	J	4A	74
VT	0B	11	Vertical Tab	K	4B	75
FF	0C	12	Form Feed	L	4C	76
CR	0D	13	Carriage Return	M	4D	77
SO	0E	14	Shift Out	N	4E	78
SI	0F	15	Shift In	O	4F	79	Letter O
TC7	10	16	*	P	50	80
DC1	11	17	Device Control 1	Q	51	81	Letter Q
DC2	12	18	Device Control 2	R	52	82
DC3	13	19	Device Control 3	S	53	83
DC4	14	20	Device Control 4	T	54	84
TC8	15	21	*	U	55	85
TC9	16	22	*	V	56	86
TC10	17	23	*	W	57	87
CAN	18	24	Cancel	X	58	88
EM	19	25	End of Medium	Y	59	89
SUB	1A	26	Substitute	Z	5A	90
ESC	1B	27	Escape	[	5B	91	Open Square Bracket
IS1	1C	28	*	\	5C	92	Back slash
IS2	1D	29	*	]	5D	93	Close Square Bracket
IS3	1E	30	*	^	5E	94	Circumflex/caret
IS4	1F	31	*	_	5F	95	Underscore
SP	20	32	Space or Blank	'	60	96	Single Quote
!	21	33	Exclamation Point	a	61	97
"	22	34	Quotation Mark	b	62	98
#	23	35	Number sign (a.k.a. Pound sign or Hash)	c	63	99
(currency)	24	36	*	d	64	100
%	25	37	Percent Sign	e	65	101
&	26	38	Ampersand	f	66	102
'	27	39	Apostrophe	g	67	103
(	28	40	Opening Parenthesis	h	68	104
)	29	41	Closing Parenthesis	i	69	105
*	2A	42	Asterisk (a.k.a. Star sign)	j	6A	106
+	2B	43	Plus Sign	k	6B	107
,	2C	44	Comma	l	6C	108
-	2D	45	Hyphen (a.k.a. Minus)	m	6D	109
.	2E	46	Dot (a.k.a. Period)	n	6E	110
/	2F	47	Forward Slash	o	6F	111	lower case o
0	30	48	Zero	p	70	112
1	31	49		q	71	113
2	32	50		r	72	114
3	33	51		s	73	115
4	34	52		t	74	116
5	35	53		u	75	117
6	36	54		v	76	118
7	37	55		w	77	119
8	38	56		x	78	120
9	39	57		y	79	121
:	3A	58	Colon	z	7A	122
;	3B	59	Semi Colon	{	7B	123	Open Brace (a.k.a. Open Curly Bracket)
<	3C	60	Less Than	\|	7C	124	OR (a.k.a. Pipe)
=	3D	61	Equality	}	7D	125	Close Brace (a.k.a. Close Curly Bracket)
>	3E	62	Greater Than	(over-line)	7E	126	*
?	3F	63	Question Mark	DEL	7F	127	Delete

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