13.2. Character sets
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13.2. Character sets

The characters are ordered according to a superset of the ASCII character set.

Platform Dependent: Only in CLISP built with compile-time flag UNICODE
More precisely, CLISP uses the 21-bit Unicode 3.2 character set (ISO 10646, also known as UCS-4).
Platform Dependent: Only in CLISP built without compile-time flag UNICODE

More precisely, CLISP uses the ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) character set:

 #x0#x1#x2#x3#x4#x5#x6#x7#x8#x9#xA#xB#xC#xD#xE#xF
#x00********************************
#x10********************************
#x20 !"#$%&'()*+,-./
#x300123456789:;<=>?
#x40@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
#x50PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
#x60`abcdefghijklmno
#x70pqrstuvwxyz{|}~ 
#x80                
#x90                
#xA0 ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬­®¯
#xB0°±²³´µ·¸¹º»¼½¾¿
#xC0ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ
#xD0ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
#xE0àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîï
#xF0ðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ

Here ** are control characters, not graphic characters. (The characters left blank here cannot be represented in this character set).

Table 13.2. Standard characters

charactercode
#\Space#x20
#\Newline#x0A

Table 13.3. Semi-standard characters

charactercode
#\Backspace#x08
#\Tab#x09
#\Linefeed#x0A
#\Page#x0C
#\Return#x0D

#\Newline is the line terminator.

Table 13.4. Additional Named Characters

charactercode
#\Null#x00
#\Bell#x07
#\Escape#x1B

Table 13.5. Additional syntax for characters with code from #x00 to #x1F:

charactercode
#\^@#x00
#\^A … #\^Z#x01 … #x1A
#\^[#x1B
#\^\#x1C
#\^]#x1D
#\^^#x1E
#\^_#x1F

See also Section 2.6.1, “Sharpsign Backslash sec_2-4-8-1”.

These notes document CLISP version 2.49.93+Last modified: 2018-02-19
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