Reference Tables

The reference tables in this section are based on U.S. English 
conventions.  Your system may differ if it is configured for a different 
country or language, or a character set or display font which does not 
include the characters shown here.  See your operating system 
documentation for more information about country and language support. 

To represent the text you type, computers must translate each letter to 
and from a number.  The code used by all PC-compatible computers for this 
translation is called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information 
Interchange).  Function keys, cursor keys, and Alt keys generate scan 
codes indicating which key was pressed, but not ASCII codes.  The tables 
in this section cover both kinds of codes. 

For more information, see: 

            ASCII Table 
            Key Codes and Scan Codes Table 
            Key Codes and Scan Codes Explanation 
            ANSI Codes