What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With TextThere are 95 human readable characters specified in the ASCII table, including the letters A through Z both in upper and lower case, the numbers 0 through 9, a handful of punctuation marks and characters like the dollar symbol, the ampersand and a few others. It also includes 33 values for things like space, line feed, tab, backspace and so on. These are not printable per se, but still visible in
