ASCII Chart for COMT 222 and 325 September 15, 1998 ASCII formatting is often required for the storage and display of characters including digits. Numbers for computation are normally stored in binary format. Rows represent the most-significant four bits. Columns represent the least-significant four bits. For example, 'A' is hexadecimal 41. The characters not recognizable as letters, numbers, and punctuation are regarded as 'control characters' 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 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 Source: www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.htm