The EBCDIC Character Table

Once upon a time IBM invented EBCDIC. EBCDIC is an acronym for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. It is a single byte (8 bit) character encoding standard that is used in the IBM mainframe environment. IBM didn't invent just one version of EBCDIC either but several different incompatible versions. The computing friendly and user friendly thing would have been to use the already in existence ASCII standard. By way of disclosure, note that I was a happy employee of IBM - until sold.

The following table is a list of IBM's EBCDIC table values. Note that EBCDIC is not programmer friendly because of the way in which the table was organized by IBM. The source I used to construct this table is my tattered copy of the IBM System/370 Reference Summary card, fourth edition. Note that in the "Character" column, entries that consist of two or three capitalized letters are actually control codes and not standard characters.

Table of EBCDIC character set
Document Produced by Jim Plaxco

decimal
value		 hex
value		 Character
000 00 NUL
001 01 SOH
002 02 STX
003 03 ETX
004 04 PF
005 05 HT
006 06 LC
007 07 DEL
008 08 GE
009 09 RLF
010 0A SMM
011 0B VT
012 0C FF
013 0D CR
014 0E SO
015 0F SI
016 10 DLE
017 11 DC1
018 12 DC2
019 13 TM
020 14 RES
021 15 NL
022 16 BS
023 17 IL
024 18 CAN
025 19 EM
026 1A CC
027 1B CU1
028 1C IFS
029 1D IGS
030 1E IRS
031 1F IUS
032 20 DS
033 21 SOS
034 22 FS
035 23  
036 24 BYP
037 25 LF
038 26 ETB
039 27 ESC
040 28  
041 29  
042 2A SM
043 2B CU2
044 2C  
045 2D ENQ
046 2E ACK
047 2F BEL
048 30  
049 31  
050 32 SYN
051 33  
052 34 PN
053 35 RS
054 36 UC
055 37 EOT
056 38  
057 39  
058 3A  
059 3B CUB
060 3C DC4
061 3D NAK
062 3E  
063 3F SUB
064 40 BLANK
065 41  
066 42  
067 43  
068 44  
069 45  
070 46  
071 47  
072 48  
073 49  
074 4A ¢
075 4B .
076 4C <
077 4D (
078 4E +
079 4F |
080 50  
081 51  
082 52  
083 53  
084 54  
085 55  
086 56  
087 57  
088 58  
089 59  
090 5A !
091 5B $
092 5C *
093 5D )
094 5E ;
095 5F ¬
096 60 -
097 61 /
098 62  
099 63  
100 64  
101 65  
102 66  
103 67  
104 68  
105 69  
106 6A ¦
107 6B ,
108 6C %
109 6D _
110 6E >
111 6F ?
112 70  
113 71  
114 72  
115 73  
116 74  
117 75  
118 76  
119 77  
120 78  
121 79 `
122 7A :
123 7B #
124 7C @
125 7D '
126 7E =
127 7F "
128 80  
129 81 a
130 82 b
131 83 c
132 84 d
133 85 e
134 86 f
135 87 g
136 88 h
137 89 i
138 8A  
139 8B  
140 8C  
141 8D  
142 8E  
143 8F  
144 90  
145 91 j
146 92 k
147 93 l
148 94 m
149 95 n
150 96 o
151 97 p
152 98 q
153 99 r
154 9A  
155 9B  
156 9C  
157 9D  
158 9E  
159 9F  
160 A0  
161 A1 ~
162 A2 s
163 A3 t
164 A4 u
165 A5 v
166 A6 w
167 A7 x
168 A8 y
169 A9 z
170 AA  
171 AB  
172 AC  
173 AD  
174 AE  
175 AF  
176 B0  
177 B1  
178 B2  
179 B3  
180 B4  
181 B5  
182 B6  
183 B7  
184 B8  
185 B9  
186 BA  
187 BB  
188 BC  
189 BD  
190 BE  
191 BF  
192 C0 {
193 C1 A
194 C2 B
195 C3 C
196 C4 D
197 C5 E
198 C6 F
199 C7 G
200 C8 H
201 C9 I
202 CA  
203 CB  
204 CC non-displayable
205 CD  
206 CE non-displayable
207 CF  
208 D0 }
209 D1 J
210 D2 K
211 D3 L
212 D4 M
213 D5 N
214 D6 O
215 D7 P
216 D8 Q
217 D9 R
218 DA  
219 DB  
220 DC  
221 DD  
222 DE  
223 DF  
224 E0 \
225 E1  
226 E2 S
227 E3 T
228 E4 U
229 E5 V
230 E6 W
231 E7 X
232 E8 Y
233 E9 Z
234 EA  
235 EB  
236 EC non-displayable
237 ED  
238 EE  
239 EF  
240 F0 0
241 F1 1
242 F2 2
243 F3 3
244 F4 4
245 F5 5
246 F6 6
247 F7 7
248 F8 8
249 F9 9
250 FA non-displayable
251 FB  
252 FC  
253 FD  
254 FE  
255 FF EO

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