信
息在计算机上是用二进制表示的,这种表示法让人理解就很困难。因此计算机上都配有输入和输出设备,这些设备的主要目的就是,以一种人类可阅读的形式将信息
在这些设备上显示出来供人阅读理解。为保证人类和设备,设备和计算机之间能进行正确的信息交换,人们编制的统一的信息交换代码,这就是ASCII码表,它的全称是“美国信息交换标准代码”。
前32个控制字符的详细解释:
NUL (null)
SOH (start of heading)
STX (start of text)
ETX (end of text)
EOT (end of transmission) - Not the same as ETB
ENQ (enquiry)
ACK (acknowledge)
BEL (bell) - Caused teletype machines to ring a bell. Causes a beep
in many common terminals and terminal emulation programs.
BS (backspace) - Moves the cursor (or print head) move backwards (left)
one space.
TAB (horizontal tab) - Moves the cursor (or print head) right to the next
tab stop. The spacing of tab stops is dependent
on the output device, but is often either 8 or 10.
LF (NL line feed, new line) - Moves the cursor (or print head) to a new
line. On Unix systems, moves to a new line
AND all the way to the left.
VT (vertical tab)
FF (form feed) - Advances paper to the top of the next page (if the
output device is a printer).
CR (carriage return) - Moves the cursor all the way to the left, but does
not advance to the next line.
SO (shift out) - Switches output device to alternate character set.
SI (shift in) - Switches output device back to default character set.
DLE (data link escape)
DC1 (device control 1)
DC2 (device control 2)
DC3 (device control 3)
DC4 (device control 4)
NAK (negative acknowledge)
SYN (synchronous idle)
ETB (end of transmission block) - Not the same as EOT
CAN (cancel)
EM (end of medium)
SUB (substitute)
ESC (escape)
FS (file separator)
GS (group separator)
RS (record separator)
US (unit separator)
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