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The Basic Latin (or C0 Controls and Basic Latin) Unicode block is the first block of the Unicode standard, and the only block which is encoded in one byte in UTF-8. The block contains all the letters and control codes of the ASCII encoding, which is a United States national variant of ISO/IEC 646.
The letter U+005C (\) may show up as a Yen or Won sign in Japanese/Korean fonts for compatibility reasons with legacy character sets which replaced the backslash with these signs.[1]
The following table shows the contents of the block:
| Code | Result | Description | Acronym |
|---|---|---|---|
| U+0000 | Null character | NUL | |
| U+0001 | Start of Heading | SOH | |
| U+0002 | Start of Text | STX | |
| U+0003 | End-of-text character | ETX | |
| U+0004 | End-of-transmission character | EOT | |
| U+0005 | Enquiry character | ENQ | |
| U+0006 | Acknowledge character | ACK | |
| U+0007 | Bell character | BEL | |
| U+0008 | Backspace | BS | |
| U+0009 | Horizontal tab | HT | |
| U+000A | Line feed | LF | |
| U+000B | Vertical tab | VT | |
| U+000C | Form feed | FF | |
| U+000D | Carriage return | CR | |
| U+000E | Shift Out | SO | |
| U+000F | Shift In | SI | |
| U+0010 | Data Link Escape | DLE | |
| U+0011 | Device Control 1 | DC1 | |
| U+0012 | Device Control 2 | DC2 | |
| U+0013 | Device Control 3 | DC3 | |
| U+0014 | Device Control 4 | DC4 | |
| U+0015 | Negative-acknowledge character | NAK | |
| U+0016 | Synchronous Idle | SYN | |
| U+0017 | End of Transmission Block | ETB | |
| U+0018 | Cancel character | CAN | |
| U+0019 | End of Medium | EM | |
| U+001A | Substitute character | SUB | |
| U+001B | Escape character | ESC | |
| U+001C | File Separator | FS | |
| U+001D | Group Separator | GS | |
| U+001E | Record Separator | RS | |
| U+001F | Unit Separator | US | |
| U+0020 | Space | SP | |
| U+0021 | ! | Exclamation mark | |
| U+0022 | " | Quotation mark | |
| U+0023 | # | Number sign | |
| U+0024 | $ | Dollar sign | |
| U+0025 | % | Percent sign | |
| U+0026 | & | Ampersand | |
| U+0027 | ' | Apostrophe | |
| U+0028 | ( | Left parenthesis | |
| U+0029 | ) | Right parenthesis | |
| U+002A | * | Asterisk | |
| U+002B | + | Plus sign | |
| U+002C | , | Comma | |
| U+002D | - | Hyphen-minus | |
| U+002E | . | Full stop | |
| U+002F | / | Slash | |
| U+0030 | 0 | Digit Zero | |
| U+0031 | 1 | Digit One | |
| U+0032 | 2 | Digit Two | |
| U+0033 | 3 | Digit Three | |
| U+0034 | 4 | Digit Four | |
| U+0035 | 5 | Digit Five | |
| U+0036 | 6 | Digit Six | |
| U+0037 | 7 | Digit Seven | |
| U+0038 | 8 | Digit Eight | |
| U+0039 | 9 | Digit Nine | |
| U+003A | : | Colon | |
| U+003B | ; | Semicolon | |
| U+003C | < | Less-than sign | |
| U+003D | = | Equal sign | |
| U+003E | > | Greater-than sign | |
| U+003F | ? | Question mark | |
| U+0040 | @ | At sign | |
| U+0041 | A | Latin Capital letter A | |
| U+0042 | B | Latin Capital letter B | |
| U+0043 | C | Latin Capital letter C | |
| U+0044 | D | Latin Capital letter D | |
| U+0045 | E | Latin Capital letter E | |
| U+0046 | F | Latin Capital letter F | |
| U+0047 | G | Latin Capital letter G | |
| U+0048 | H | Latin Capital letter H | |
| U+0049 | I | Latin Capital letter I | |
| U+004A | J | Latin Capital letter J | |
| U+004B | K | Latin Capital letter K | |
| U+004C | L | Latin Capital letter L | |
| U+004D | M | Latin Capital letter M | |
| U+004E | N | Latin Capital letter N | |
| U+004F | O | Latin Capital letter O | |
| U+0050 | P | Latin Capital letter P | |
| U+0051 | Q | Latin Capital letter Q | |
| U+0052 | R | Latin Capital letter R | |
| U+0053 | S | Latin Capital letter S | |
| U+0054 | T | Latin Capital letter T | |
| U+0055 | U | Latin Capital letter U | |
| U+0056 | V | Latin Capital letter V | |
| U+0057 | W | Latin Capital letter W | |
| U+0058 | X | Latin Capital letter X | |
| U+0059 | Y | Latin Capital letter Y | |
| U+005A | Z | Latin Capital letter Z | |
| U+005B | [ | Left Square Bracket | |
| U+005C | \ | Backslash | |
| U+005D | ] | Right Square Bracket | |
| U+005E | ^ | Circumflex accent | |
| U+005F | _ | Low line | |
| U+0060 | ` | Grave accent | |
| U+0061 | a | Latin Small Letter A | |
| U+0062 | b | Latin Small Letter B | |
| U+0063 | c | Latin Small Letter C | |
| U+0064 | d | Latin Small Letter D | |
| U+0065 | e | Latin Small Letter E | |
| U+0066 | f | Latin Small Letter F | |
| U+0067 | g | Latin Small Letter G | |
| U+0068 | h | Latin Small Letter H | |
| U+0069 | i | Latin Small Letter I | |
| U+006A | j | Latin Small Letter J | |
| U+006B | k | Latin Small Letter K | |
| U+006C | l | Latin Small Letter L | |
| U+006D | m | Latin Small Letter M | |
| U+006E | n | Latin Small Letter N | |
| U+006F | o | Latin Small Letter O | |
| U+0070 | p | Latin Small Letter P | |
| U+0071 | q | Latin Small Letter Q | |
| U+0072 | r | Latin Small Letter R | |
| U+0073 | s | Latin Small Letter S | |
| U+0074 | t | Latin Small Letter T | |
| U+0075 | u | Latin Small Letter U | |
| U+0076 | v | Latin Small Letter V | |
| U+0077 | w | Latin Small Letter W | |
| U+0078 | x | Latin Small Letter X | |
| U+0079 | y | Latin Small Letter Y | |
| U+007A | z | Latin Small Letter Z | |
| U+007B | { | Left Curly Bracket | |
| U+007C | | | Vertical bar | |
| U+007D | } | Right Curly Bracket | |
| U+007E | ~ | Tilde | |
| U+007F | Delete | DEL |