Wikipedia:Historical archive/Wiki ASCII codes page
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This was an early attempt in 2001 to create a list of ASCII codes that could be used universally. At the time, the English Wikipedia used Latin-1 encoding; this did not change until 2005. This page was eventually superceded by {{noredirect|Wikipedia:Special characters}}, which is a redirect to Help:Special characters. Its contents were moved to the early special characters talk page, which is now at Wikipedia talk:Special characters/Archive 1, but were later removed from there. The original content of this page, along with this comment, has been preserved below, with links adjusted so they still work. This page's first edit summary refers to a page called "R P Sandbox", which can now be found (along with its page history) at User:RoseParks/sandbox. The original "Wiki ASCII codes page" was deleted in April 2002 by Lee Daniel Crocker.
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Please see Wiki special characters for a page that many believe should supercede this one.
NOTE: This is more than a matter of taste/convenience. The codes below are not ASCII; several will not work on many machines (particulary the ones listed as 158, 159, 169, 228, 229, 231, 232, 247), and don't even exist at the codes claimed. For example, if you type Alt-151 on a Windows machine, you are actually entering code 249, because that's the "new" Windows code page 1252 code for what used to be at position 151 in the now-obsolete pre-Windows code page 437. The use of the table below is dangerous and misleading. The codes listed on Wiki special characters are correct. Larry seems to want to keep this page around for historical reasons, but I disagree. This page is simply in error, and should be removed or redirected. --Lee Daniel Crocker
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ASCII character codes that I think will work for everybody. On many systems you can make these by holding down alt and then, using the number pad, typing the number of the character in question.
128 Ç 136 ê 144 É 152 ÿ 160 á 168 ¿ 184 © 208 ð 216 Ï 224 Ó 232 Þ 248 °
129 ü 137 ë 145 æ 153 Ö 161 í 169 ® 209 Ð 225 ß 233 Ú 241 ± 249 ¨
130 é 138 è 146 Æ 154 Ü 162 ó 170 ¬ 210 Ê 226 Ô 234 Û 250 ·
131 â 139 ï 147 ô 155 ø 163 ú 211 Ë 227 Ò 235 Ù
132 ä 140 î 148 ö 156 £ 164 ñ 212 È 228 õ 236 ý 244 ¶
133 à 141 ì 149 ò 157 Ø 165 Ñ 173 ¡ 181 Á 189 ¢ 229 Õ 237 Ý 245 §
134 å 142 Ä 150 û 158 × 166 ª 174 « 182 Â 190 ¥ 198 ã 214 Í 230 µ 238 ¯ 246 ÷
135 ç 143 Å 151 ù 159 ƒ 175 » 183 À 199 Ã 215 Î 231 þ 247 ¸
If anything on this table shows up as a normal symbol, like a question mark or underscore, it isn't working and you should erase it so the rest of us know not to use it. On some computers these don't show up properly, but at least default to something similar: 158 (times sign -> x), 167 (underlined ° -> °), 213 (undotted i -> i).
One can also enter ANSI characters by holding down alt and typing in a number prefixed with a zero. However, one probably shouldn't, since they don't show up on some machines.
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These are delightful. However, I'd like to remind everyone not to use these in page names (i.e. in URLs that you create), because it is my understanding that they will not generally work.
However, if I'm totally wrong, I hope someone will correct me.
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Is anyone taking into consideration that "not everyone" keeps their character map (charmap) set to the default? I for one, don't even remember what the default was/is. --Anonynmous
Not sure whether that "character map" setting refers to Linux or Windoze.
However, looking at these (character set) pages (on Linux, using NS 6.0
called to my attention that the "Schumacher-clean" font, which claims to
be ISO-8859-1 (and which I had recently set as the default Monospace
font for Netscape and as the font for my editor (Vim), because it looks
good) is not. All the glyphs for character codes above 16#7F
displayed as the same funny symbol.
OTOH, the "misc-fixed" font seems to be full ISO-8859-1 and displays all
the symbols here correctly. --Jason Scribner