Code page 437 (IBM PC)

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a widely used character encoding system introduced in 1963.

The original character set, which is now referred as the standard character set was initially composed of 128 characters (7-bit code). The first 32 characters are control characters (also called non-printable characters), which are used to control data streams as well as devices such as printers. It later was expanded to support 256 characters (8-bit code) in order to provide language specific characters, various symbols, as well as box-drawing characters: elements used for presentation purposes, allowing to draw different kind of frames and boxes. The characters in the 128-255 range are referred to as extended ASCII.

Code page 437 is the original code page of the IBM PC.

The character table below is showing a pixel precise graphical representation for each character, alongside with a text description.

Control characters (0 - 31):

DecHexCharDescriptionDecHexCharDescription
00
NUL (Null)1610
DLE (Data Link Escape)
11
SOH (Start of Header)1711
DC1 (Device Control 1)
22
STX (Start of Text)1812
DC2 (Device Control 2)
33
ETX (End of Text)1913
DC3 (Device Control 3)
44
EOT (End of Transmission)2014
DC4 (Device Control 4)
55
ENQ (Enquiry)2115
NAK (Negative Acknowledge)
66
ACK (Acknowledge)2216
SYN (Synchronous Idle)
77
BEL (Bell)2317
ETB (End of Transmission Block)
88
BS (BackSpace)2418
CAN (Cancel)
99
HT (Horizontal Tabulation)2519
EM (End of Medium)
10A
LF (Line Feed)261A
SUB (Substitute)
11B
VT (Vertical Tabulation)271B
ESC (Escape)
12C
FF (Form Feed)281C
FS (File Separator)
13D
CR (Carriage Return)291D
GS (Group Separator)
14E
SO (Shift Out)301E
RS (Record Separator)
15F
SI (Shift In)311F
US (Unit Separator)

Standard character set (32 - 127):

DecHexCharDescriptionDecHexCharDescription
3220
Space8050
Upper case P
3321
Exclamation mark8151
Upper case Q
3422
Quotation Mark8252
Upper case R
3523
Hash8353
Upper case S
3624
Dollar8454
Upper case T
3725
Percent8555
Upper case U
3826
Ampersand8656
Upper case V
3927
Apostrophe8757
Upper case W
4028
Open bracket8858
Upper case X
4129
Close bracket8959
Upper case Y
422A
Asterisk905A
Upper case Z
432B
Plus915B
Open square bracket
442C
Comma925C
Backslash
452D
Dash935D
Close square bracket
462E
Full stop945E
Caret
472F
Slash955F
Underscore
4830
Zero9660
Grave accent
4931
One9761
Lower case a
5032
Two9862
Lower case b
5133
Three9963
Lower case c
5234
Four10064
Lower case d
5335
Five10165
Lower case e
5436
Six10266
Lower case f
5537
Seven10367
Lower case g
5638
Eight10468
Lower case h
5739
Nine10569
Lower case i
583A
Colon1066A
Lower case j
593B
Semicolon1076B
Lower case k
603C
Less than1086C
Lower case l
613D
Equals sign1096D
Lower case m
623E
Greater than1106E
Lower case n
633F
Question mark1116F
Lower case o
6440
At11270
Lower case p
6541
Upper case A11371
Lower case q
6642
Upper case B11472
Lower case r
6743
Upper case C11573
Lower case s
6844
Upper case D11674
Lower case t
6945
Upper case E11775
Lower case u
7046
Upper case F11876
Lower case v
7147
Upper case G11977
Lower case w
7248
Upper case H12078
Lower case x
7349
Upper case I12179
Lower case y
744A
Upper case J1227A
Lower case z
754B
Upper case K1237B
Open brace
764C
Upper case L1247C
Pipe
774D
Upper case M1257D
Close brace
784E
Upper case N1267E
Tilde
794F
Upper case O1277F
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Extended character set (128 - 255):

DecHexCharDescriptionDecHexCharDescription
12880
Upper case C with cedilla192C0
Box drawings light up and right
12981
Lower case u with diaeresis193C1
Box drawings light up and horizontal
13082
Lower case e with acute194C2
Box drawings light down and horizontal
13183
Lower case a with circumflex195C3
Box drawings light vertical and right
13284
Lower case a with diaeresis196C4
Box drawings light horizontal
13385
Lower case a with grave197C5
Box drawings light vertical and horizontal
13486
Lower case a with ring above198C6
Box drawings vertical single and right double
13587
Lower case c with cedilla199C7
Box drawings vertical double and right single
13688
Lower case e with circumflex200C8
Box drawings double up and right
13789
Lower case e with diaeresis201C9
Box drawings double down and right
1388A
Lower case e with grave202CA
Box drawings double up and horizontal
1398B
Lower case i with diaeresis203CB
Box drawings double down and horizontal
1408C
Lower case i with circumflex204CC
Box drawings double vertical and right
1418D
Lower case i with grave205CD
Box drawings double horizontal
1428E
Upper case A with diaeresis206CE
Box drawings double vertical and horizontal
1438F
Upper case A with ring above207CF
Box drawings up single and horizontal double
14490
Upper case E with acute208D0
Box drawings up double and horizontal single
14591
Lower case ae209D1
Box drawings down single and horizontal double
14692
Upper case AE210D2
Box drawings down double and horizontal single
14793
Lower case o with circumflex211D3
Box drawings up double and right single
14894
Lower case o with diaeresis212D4
Box drawings up single and right double
14995
Lower case o with grave213D5
Box drawings down single and right double
15096
Lower case u with circumflex214D6
Box drawings down double and right single
15197
Lower case u with grave215D7
Box drawings vertical double and horizontal single
15298
Lower case y with diaeresis216D8
Box drawings vertical single and horizontal double
15399
Upper case O with diaeresis217D9
Box drawings light up and left
1549A
Upper case U with diaeresis218DA
Box drawings light down and right
1559B
Cent sign219DB
Full block
1569C
Pound sign220DC
Lower half block
1579D
Yen sign221DD
Left half block
1589E
Peseta sign222DE
Right half block
1599F
Lower case f with hook223DF
Upper half block
160A0
Lower case a with acute224E0
Greek lower case alpha
161A1
Lower case i with acute225E1
Lower case sharp s
162A2
Lower case o with acute226E2
Greek upper case letter gamma
163A3
Lower case u with acute227E3
Greek lower case pi
164A4
Lower case n with tilde228E4
Greek upper case letter sigma
165A5
Upper case N with tilde229E5
Greek lower case sigma
166A6
Feminine ordinal indicator230E6
Micro sign
167A7
Masculine ordinal indicator231E7
Greek lower case tau
168A8
Inverted question mark232E8
Greek upper case letter phi
169A9
Reversed not sign233E9
Greek upper case letter theta
170AA
Not sign234EA
Greek upper case letter omega
171AB
Vulgar fraction one half235EB
Greek lower case delta
172AC
Vulgar fraction one quarter236EC
Infinity
173AD
Inverted exclamation mark237ED
Greek lower case phi
174AE
Left-pointing double angle quotation mark238EE
Greek lower case epsilon
175AF
Right-pointing double angle quotation mark239EF
Intersection
176B0
Light shade240F0
Identical to
177B1
Medium shade241F1
Plus-minus sign
178B2
Dark shade242F2
Greater-than or equal to
179B3
Box drawings light vertical243F3
Less-than or equal to
180B4
Box drawings light vertical and left244F4
Top half integral
181B5
Box drawings vertical single and left double245F5
Bottom half integral
182B6
Box drawings vertical double and left single246F6
Division sign
183B7
Box drawings down double and left single247F7
Almost equal to
184B8
Box drawings down single and left double248F8
Degree sign
185B9
Box drawings double vertical and left249F9
Bullet operator
186BA
Box drawings double vertical250FA
Middle dot
187BB
Box drawings double down and left251FB
Square root
188BC
Box drawings double up and left252FC
Superscript lower case n
189BD
Box drawings up double and left single253FD
Superscript two
190BE
Box drawings up single and left double254FE
Black square
191BF
Box drawings light down and left255FF
No-break space