The operating system of this model, the "MS-DOS" also used this extended ASCII code.Īlmost all computer systems today use the ASCII code to represent characters and texts.ĪSCII code 03 = ETX ( End of Text, hearts card suit )ĪSCII code 04 = EOT ( End of Transmission, diamonds card suit )ĪSCII code 05 = ENQ ( Enquiry, clubs card suit )ĪSCII code 06 = ACK ( Acknowledgement, spade card suit )ĪSCII code 11 = VT ( Vertical Tab, male symbol, symbol for Mars )ĪSCII code 12 = FF ( Form feed, female symbol, symbol for Venus )ĪSCII code 21 = NAK ( NAK Negative-acknowledge )ĪSCII code 23 = ETB ( End of trans. IBM includes support for this code page in the hardware of its model 5150, known as "IBM-PC", considered the first personal computer. German words with an umlaut are collated ignoring the umlautcontrary to Turkish that adopted the graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, would come after tuz, in the dictionary. In this way was added the ASCII characters ranging from 128 to 255. It also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of 'numbering' ordered items. Also 128 characters were added, with new symbols, signs, graphics and latin letters, all punctuation signs and characters needed to write texts in other languages, such as Spanish. 132 is the code for the letter, the a umlaut. Then press ALT and keep it pressed while you type the code 132 on the number pad. In 1981, IBM developed an extension of 8-bit ASCII code, called "code page 437", in this version were replaced some obsolete control characters for graphic characters. There is an easy way to write the German characters and on a non-German keyboard: Press NUM on the number pad of your keyboard to activate the NUM-lock. So with this set of only 128 characters was published in 1967 as standard, containing all you need to write in English language. This code arises from reorder and expand the set of symbols and characters already used in telegraphy at that time by the Bell company.Īt first only included capital letters and numbers, but in 1967 was added the lowercase letters and some control characters, forming what is known as US-ASCII, ie the characters 0 through 127. The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII code, was created in 1963 by the "American Standards Association" Committee or "ASA", the agency changed its name in 1969 by "American National Standards Institute" or "ANSI" as it is known since.