ISO/IEC 6937 - Single Byte Characters

Single Byte Characters

The primary set of ISO6937/2 is based on ISO646 (characters 0x00..0x7f) with the exception of character 0x24 ($) which is denoted as a "general currency sign" (¤):

!"#¤%&`*+'-./0123456789:;<=>?@ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_` abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}

The supplementary set (characters 0x80..0xff) contains a selection of spacing and non-spacing graphic characters, additional symbols and some locations reserved for future standardisation.

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