Annex A. Character Encoding

This section is intended as a quick reference to the character sets used by Zint. All symbologies use standard ASCII input as shown in section A.1, but some support extended characters as shown in the subsequent section A.2 Latin Alphabet No. 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1).

A.1 ASCII Standard

The ubiquitous ASCII standard is well known to most computer users. It’s reproduced here for reference.

Table 48: ASCII
Hex	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
0	`NUL`	`DLE`	`SPACE`	`0`	`@`	`P`	`	`p`
1	`SOH`	`DC1`	`!`	`1`	`A`	`Q`	`a`	`q`
2	`STX`	`DC2`	`"`	`2`	`B`	`R`	`b`	`r`
3	`ETX`	`DC3`	`#`	`3`	`C`	`S`	`c`	`s`
4	`EOT`	`DC4`	`$`	`4`	`D`	`T`	`d`	`t`
5	`ENQ`	`NAK`	`%`	`5`	`E`	`U`	`e`	`u`
6	`ACK`	`SYN`	`&`	`6`	`F`	`V`	`f`	`v`
7	`BEL`	`ETB`	`'`	`7`	`G`	`W`	`g`	`w`
8	`BS`	`CAN`	`(`	`8`	`H`	`X`	`h`	`x`
9	`TAB`	`EM`	`)`	`9`	`I`	`Y`	`i`	`y`
A	`LF`	`SUB`	`*`	`:`	`J`	`Z`	`j`	`z`
B	`VT`	`ESC`	`+`	`;`	`K`	`[`	`k`	`{`
C	`FF`	`FS`	`,`	`<`	`L`	`\`	`l`	`\|`
D	`CR`	`GS`	`-`	`=`	`M`	`]`	`m`	`}`
E	`SO`	`RS`	`.`	`>`	`N`	`^`	`n`	`~`
F	`SI`	`US`	`/`	`?`	`O`	`_`	`o`	`DEL`

A.2 Latin Alphabet No. 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1)

ISO/IEC 8859-1 defines additional characters common in western European languages like French, German, Italian and Spanish. This extension is the default encoding of many barcodes (see Table 6: Default Character Sets) when a codepoint above hex 9F is encoded. Note that codepoints hex 80 to 9F are not defined.

Table 49: ISO/IEC 8859-1
Hex	A	B	C	D	E	F
0	`NBSP`	`°`	`À`	`Ð`	`à`	`ð`
1	`¡`	`±`	`Á`	`Ñ`	`á`	`ñ`
2	`¢`	`²`	`Â`	`Ò`	`â`	`ò`
3	`£`	`³`	`Ã`	`Ó`	`ã`	`ó`
4	`¤`	`´`	`Ä`	`Ô`	`ä`	`ô`
5	`¥`	`μ`	`Å`	`Õ`	`å`	`õ`
6	`¦`	`¶`	`Æ`	`Ö`	`æ`	`ö`
7	`§`	`·`	`Ç`	`×`	`ç`	`÷`
8	`¨`	`¸`	`È`	`Ø`	`è`	`ø`
9	`©`	`¹`	`É`	`Ù`	`é`	`ù`
A	`ª`	`º`	`Ê`	`Ú`	`ê`	`ú`
B	`«`	`»`	`Ë`	`Û`	`ë`	`û`
C	`¬`	`¼`	`Ì`	`Ü`	`ì`	`ü`
D	`SHY`	`½`	`Í`	`Ý`	`í`	`ý`
E	`®`	`¾`	`Î`	`Þ`	`î`	`þ`
F	`¯`	`¿`	`Ï`	`ß`	`ï`	`ÿ`

A Character Encoding

Annex A. Character Encoding

A.1 ASCII Standard

A.2 Latin Alphabet No. 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1)