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basic Tip #151: an ascii table

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created:   October 31, 2001 11:43      complexity:   basic
author:   Adam Seyfarth      as of Vim:   6.0

There is an ascii table in the vim-help files, but it's hard to find.  Thus, I shall give a pointer to it:

:help digraph-table

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Additional Notes

Anonymous, November 1, 2001 7:13
The table does not list all ascii characters, for instance [a-z], [A-Z] and [0-9] are missing....
shlompi@hotmail.com, November 1, 2001 17:43
In fact it's not an ASCII table at all.
ASCII is 7-bit, codes 0x00 to 0x7F.
This table lists the C0, C1 and G1 ranges of ISO-8859-1 (ISO-Latin1).

C0 - lower control codes, 0x00 to 0x1F (and 0x7F, DEL)
C1 - higher control codes, 0x80 to 0x9F
G1 - ISO-8859 extension range, 0xA0 to 0xFF

What is referred to as ASCII characters is the G0 range, 0x20 to 0x7E.
Anonymous, November 7, 2001 3:22
Note that you can get the ascii value (or whatever-value ;-) of the character under cursor with 'ga' (think of it as "Get Ascii" to remember it)
digitect@mindspring.com, March 24, 2002 18:55
You can also use the cream-ascii routines (http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=247) to insert a specific ascii code with a dialog.
Alok, October 26, 2004 10:13
This table is indeed correct for all ASCII codes and is a very useful tip.
See also http://www.asciitable.com.

Good find, Adam.
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