Portable character set

Portable Character Set is a set of 103 characters which, according to the POSIX standard, must be present in any character set. It is a subset of ASCII, lacking some control characters.^[1]

name	glyph	C string	Unicode	Unicode name
NUL		\0	U+0000	NULL (NUL)
alert		\a	U+0007	BELL (BEL)
backspace		\b	U+0008	BACKSPACE (BS)
tab		\t	U+0009	CHARACTER TABULATION (HT)
carriage-return		\r	U+000D	CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
newline		\n	U+000A	LINE FEED (LF)
vertical-tab		\v	U+000B	LINE TABULATION (VT)
form-feed		\f	U+000C	FORM FEED (FF)
space			U+0020	SPACE
exclamation-mark	!	!	U+0021	EXCLAMATION MARK
quotation-mark	"	\"	U+0022	QUOTATION MARK
number-sign	#	#	U+0023	NUMBER SIGN
dollar-sign	$	$	U+0024	DOLLAR SIGN
percent-sign	%	%	U+0025	PERCENT SIGN
ampersand	&	&	U+0026	AMPERSAND
apostrophe	'	\'	U+0027	APOSTROPHE
left-parenthesis	(	(	U+0028	LEFT PARENTHESIS
right-parenthesis	)	)	U+0029	RIGHT PARENTHESIS
asterisk	*	*	U+002A	ASTERISK
plus-sign	+	+	U+002B	PLUS SIGN
comma	,	,	U+002C	COMMA
hyphen	-	-	U+002D	HYPHEN-MINUS
period	.	.	U+002E	FULL STOP
slash	/	/	U+002F	SOLIDUS
zero	0	0	U+0030	DIGIT ZERO
one	1	1	U+0031	DIGIT ONE
two	2	2	U+0032	DIGIT TWO
three	3	3	U+0033	DIGIT THREE
four	4	4	U+0034	DIGIT FOUR
five	5	5	U+0035	DIGIT FIVE
six	6	6	U+0036	DIGIT SIX
seven	7	7	U+0037	DIGIT SEVEN
eight	8	8	U+0038	DIGIT EIGHT
nine	9	9	U+0039	DIGIT NINE
colon	:	:	U+003A	COLON
semicolon	;	;	U+003B	SEMICOLON
less-than-sign	<	<	U+003C	LESS-THAN SIGN
equals-sign	=	=	U+003D	EQUALS SIGN
greater-than-sign	>	>	U+003E	GREATER-THAN SIGN
question-mark	?	?	U+003F	QUESTION MARK
commercial-at	@	@	U+0040	COMMERCIAL AT
A	A	A	U+0041	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
B	B	B	U+0042	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
C	C	C	U+0043	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
D	D	D	U+0044	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
E	E	E	U+0045	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
F	F	F	U+0046	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
G	G	G	U+0047	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
H	H	H	U+0048	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
I	I	I	U+0049	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
J	J	J	U+004A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
K	K	K	U+004B	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
L	L	L	U+004C	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
M	M	M	U+004D	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
N	N	N	U+004E	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
O	O	O	U+004F	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
P	P	P	U+0050	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
Q	Q	Q	U+0051	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
R	R	R	U+0052	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
S	S	S	U+0053	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
T	T	T	U+0054	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U	U	U	U+0055	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
V	V	V	U+0056	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
W	W	W	U+0057	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
X	X	X	U+0058	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
Y	Y	Y	U+0059	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
Z	Z	Z	U+005A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
left-square-bracket	[	[	U+005B	LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
backslash	\	\\	U+005C	REVERSE SOLIDUS
right-square-bracket	]	]	U+005D	RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
circumflex	^	^	U+005E	CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
underscore	_	_	U+005F	LOW LINE
grave-accent	`	`	U+0060	GRAVE ACCENT
a	a	a	U+0061	LATIN SMALL LETTER A
b	b	b	U+0062	LATIN SMALL LETTER B
c	c	c	U+0063	LATIN SMALL LETTER C
d	d	d	U+0064	LATIN SMALL LETTER D
e	e	e	U+0065	LATIN SMALL LETTER E
f	f	f	U+0066	LATIN SMALL LETTER F
g	g	g	U+0067	LATIN SMALL LETTER G
h	h	h	U+0068	LATIN SMALL LETTER H
i	i	i	U+0069	LATIN SMALL LETTER I
j	j	j	U+006A	LATIN SMALL LETTER J
k	k	k	U+006B	LATIN SMALL LETTER K
l	l	l	U+006C	LATIN SMALL LETTER L
m	m	m	U+006D	LATIN SMALL LETTER M
n	n	n	U+006E	LATIN SMALL LETTER N
o	o	o	U+006F	LATIN SMALL LETTER O
p	p	p	U+0070	LATIN SMALL LETTER P
q	q	q	U+0071	LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
r	r	r	U+0072	LATIN SMALL LETTER R
s	s	s	U+0073	LATIN SMALL LETTER S
t	t	t	U+0074	LATIN SMALL LETTER T
u	u	u	U+0075	LATIN SMALL LETTER U
v	v	v	U+0076	LATIN SMALL LETTER V
w	w	w	U+0077	LATIN SMALL LETTER W
x	x	x	U+0078	LATIN SMALL LETTER X
y	y	y	U+0079	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
z	z	z	U+007A	LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
left-brace	{	{	U+007B	LEFT CURLY BRACKET
vertical-line	|	|	U+007C	VERTICAL LINE
right-brace	}	}	U+007D	RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
tilde	~	~	U+007E	TILDE

References

1. "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6". http://pubs.opengroup.org/. The Open Group. Retrieved 18 August 2014. External link in |website= (help)