DEC Special Graphics

DEC Special Graphics is a 7-bit character set developed by Digital Equipment Corporation. This was used very often to draw boxes on the VT100 video terminal and the many emulators, and used by bulletin board software. The escape sequence Esc ( 0 switched the codes for lower-case ASCII letters to draw this set, and the sequence Esc ( B switched back.

Character set

Legend:

  Alphabetic

  Control character

  Numeric digit

  Punctuation

  Extended punctuation

  Graphic character

  International

  Undefined

DEC Special

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	NUL 0000 0	SOH 0001 1	STX 0002 2	ETX 0003 3	EOT 0004 4	ENQ 0005 5	ACK 0006 6	BEL 0007 7	BS 0008 8	HT 0009 9	LF 000A 10	VT 000B 11	FF 000C 12	CR 000D 13	SO 000E 14	SI 000F 15
1_	DLE 0010 16	DC1 0011 17	DC2 0012 18	DC3 0013 19	DC4 0014 20	NAK 0015 21	SYN 0016 22	ETB 0017 23	CAN 0018 24	EM 0019 25	SUB 001A 26	ESC 001B 27	FS 001C 28	GS 001D 29	RS 001E 30	US 001F 31
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	NBSP 00A0 95
6_	◆ 25C6 96	▒ 2592 97	␉ 2409 98	␌ 240C 99	␍ 240D 100	␊ 240A 101	° 00B0 102	± 00B1 103	␤ 2424 104	␋ 240B 105	┘ 2518 106	┐ 2510 107	┌ 250C 108	└ 2514 109	┼ 253C 110	⎺ 23BA 111
7_	⎻ 23BB 112	─ 2500 113	⎼ 23BC 114	⎽ 23BD 115	├ 251C 116	┤ 2524 117	┴ 2534 118	┬ 252C 119	│ 2502 120	≤ 2264 121	≥ 2265 122	π 03C0 123	≠ 2260 124	£ 00A3 125	· 00B7 126	DEL 007F 127
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

See also

• DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS)
• DEC National Replacement Character Set (NRCS)
• DEC VT100
• Box-drawing character