Special HTML ISO Standard ISO8859-1 Latin-1 Characters Codes

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

256 ASCII character codes in a special viewable HTML format, ISO8859-1 standard, alphabet, Greek characters, alternate ampersand code, numerical.      The following provides a list of the HTML entity names of all the ISO Latin-1 Characters. The term ISO Latin-1 refers to the characters defined by the ISO Standard ISO8859-1 Latin-1 characters codes. RFC 1866 recommends referencing special characters with a character entity name rather than the ISO Latin-1 code entity name.      The ASCII code was the first 8-bit standard code that let characters - letters,numbers, punctuation, and other symbols - be represented by the same 8-bits on many different kinds of computers. It is limitted to the alphabet popular at the time in the USA but was adopted internationally( see ISO_Latin_1). It is the code used on the Internet. In the 1990's a 16-bit code was developed that will handle alphabets of many nations. It contains the ASCII sequence. The new code is called UNICODE.      The original code was developed in the days of mechanical terminals such as Teletypes. The meaning of the control codes are defined in terms of typewriter like actions - Tab, ring bell, back-space, return, and line feed. These have been re-interpreted as cursor movements for CRT's. Many computer systems use the control codes for special purposes. A competent software engineer will know about the control codes; what they were designed to mean, and how they are used or mis-used in real systems.      In many high level languages the ASCII characters are representable as a function, (eg Pascal - chr(i), C - (char)i, or Ada - CHAR'VAL(i) ) where "i" is an integer. Ada specifies a special standard package that defines ASCII with standard names for constants representing the coded character. In C they can be indicated by a backslash character (\) followed by either a special letter, or as a hexadecimal or octal number. The following dictionary defines the ASCII name, its position in the ASCII code, its original meaning, and Ada 83 symbol.