Special characters and Model 204 language support
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The following table lists the special characters found in text, such as punctuation marks, diacritic (or accent) marks, currency symbols, arithmetic and mathematical marks, building blocks for screen forms, and Optical Character Recognition characters.
See the Unicode code charts or the Unicode Standard Worldwide Character Encoding, Version 1.0, Volume 1 for additional characters.
| Character Name | Character | U.S. English | Display | Japanese | Display | French Canadian |
Display |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underscore | _ | 6D | Y | 6D | 6D | Y | |
| Nonspacing underscore | _ | ||||||
| Double underscore | = | DF | Y | ||||
| Macron | ¯ | ||||||
| Soft hyphen (shy) | - | ||||||
| Hyphen (minus sign) | - | 60 | Y | 60 | 60 | Y | |
| EN dash | – | ||||||
| EM dash | — | ||||||
| Horizontal bar | — | ||||||
| Double horizontal bar | = | DD | Y | ||||
| Comma | , | 6B | Y | 6B | 6B | Y | |
| Double comma | ,, | ||||||
| Semicolon | ; | 5E | Y | 5E | 5E | Y | |
| Colon | : | 7A | Y | 7A | 7A | Y | |
| Exclamation point | ! | 5A | Y | 5A | 4F | Y | |
| Inverted exclamation | ¡ | AA | Y | ||||
| Question mark | ? | 6F | Y | 6F | 6F | Y | |
| Inverted question mark | ¿ | AB | Y | AB | AB | Y | |
| Slash (solidus) | / | 61 | Y | 61 | 61 | Y | |
| Nonspacing long slash overlay | / | ||||||
| Period | . | 4B | Y | 4B | 4B | Y | |
| Ellipsis | … | ||||||
| Middle dot-small bullet | · | B3 | Y | B3 | B3 | Y | |
| Cedilla | ¸ | 9D | Y | 9D | E0 | Y | |
| Ogonek | ̨ | ||||||
| Nonspacing ogonek | ̨ | ||||||
| Apostrophe | ' | 7D | Y | 7D | 7D | Y | |
| Open quote | ‘ | ||||||
| Close quote | ’ | ||||||
| Quotation mark | " | 7F | Y | 7F | 7F | Y | |
| Double open quote | “ | ||||||
| Double close quote | ” | ||||||
| Left pointing single guillemet | ‹ | ||||||
| Right pointing single guillemet | › | ||||||
| Left pointing guillemet | « | ||||||
| Right pointing guillemet | » | ||||||
| Opening parenthesis | ( | 4D | Y | 4D | 4D | Y | |
| Superscript opening parenthesis | ( | ||||||
| Closing parenthesis | ) | 5D | Y | 5D | 5D | Y | |
| Superscript closing parenthesis | ) | ||||||
| Opening square bracket | [ | BA | Y | BA | BC | Y | |
| Closing square bracket | ] | BB | Y | BB | BE | Y | |
| Opening curly brace | { | C0 | Y | C0 | 51 | Y | |
| Closing curly brace | } | D0 | Y | D0 | 54 | Y | |
| Section | § | B5 | Y | B5 | B5 | Y | |
| Paragraph (pilcrow) | ¶ | B6 | Y | B6 | B4 | Y | |
| Copyright | © | B4 | Y | B4 | BA | Y | |
| Registered trademark | ® | AF | Y | AF | B9 | Y | |
| Trademark | ™ | ||||||
| At sign | @ | 7C | Y | 7C | 7C | Y | |
| Generic currency sign | ¤ | ||||||
| Euro-currency sign | ₠ | ||||||
| Euro sign | € | ||||||
| Deutsche mark | DM | ||||||
| Florin | ƒ | ||||||
| Franc | Fr | A0 | Y | ||||
| Lira | ₤ | ||||||
| Mill (usa 1/10th cent) | ₥ | ||||||
| Kroner | kr | ||||||
| Peseta | ₧ | ||||||
| Rupee | ₨ | ||||||
| Won | ₩ | ||||||
| New sheqel | ₪ | ||||||
| Cent | ¢ | 4A | Y | 4A | B0 | Y | |
| Dollar | $ | 5B | Y | 5B | 5B | Y | |
| Pound | £ | B1 | Y | B1 | B1 | Y | |
| Yen | ¥ | B2 | Y | B2 | B2 | Y | |
| Asterisk | * | 5C | Y | 5C | 5C | Y | |
| Back slash (reverse solidus) | \ | E0 | Y | E0 | BD | Y | |
| Ampersand | & | 50 | Y | 50 | 50 | Y | |
| Number sign | # | 7B | Y | 7B | 7B | Y | |
| Numero | № | ||||||
| Percent sign | % | 6C | Y | 6C | 6C | Y | |
| Permille sign | ‰ | ||||||
| Superscript minus sign | - | ||||||
| Plus sign | + | 4E | Y | 4E | 4E | Y | |
| Superscript plus sign | + | ||||||
| Plus/minus sign | ± | 8F | Y | 8F | 8B | Y | |
| Acute accent | ´ | BE | Y | BE | 5A | Y | |
| Grave accent | ` | 79 | Y | 79 | 79 | Y | |
| Breve | ˘ | ||||||
| Nonspacing breve | ˘ | ||||||
| Circumflex | ˆ | B0 | Y | B0 | |||
| Caret | ^ | ||||||
| Hacek (caron) | ˇ | ||||||
| Ring above | ̊ | ||||||
| Nonspacing ring above | ̊ | ||||||
| Diaeresis | ¨ | BD | Y | BD | A1 | Y | |
| Double acute | ̋ | ||||||
| Nonspacing double acute | ̋ | ||||||
| Tilde | ~ | ||||||
| Dot | · | ||||||
| Nonspacing dot | · | ||||||
| Division sign | ÷ | E1 | Y | ||||
| Multiplication sign | × | BF | Y | BF | BF | Y | |
| Not equal to sign | ≠ | ||||||
| Double less-than sign | « | 8A | Y | 8A | 8C | Y | |
| Less-than sign | < | 4C | Y | 4C | 4C | Y | |
| Less-than or equal sign | ≤ | ||||||
| Equals sign | = | 7E | Y | 7E | 7E | Y | |
| Greater-than or equal sign | ≥ | ||||||
| Greater-than sign | > | 6E | Y | 6E | 6E | Y | |
| Double greater-than sign | » | 8B | Y | 8B | AC | Y | |
| Not sign | ¬ | 5F | Y | 5F | 5F | Y | |
| Vertical bar | | | 4F | Y | 4F | |||
| Pipe | ¦ | 6A | Y | 6A | BB | Y | |
| Double vertical bar | || | ||||||
| Dagger | † | 9D | Y | ||||
| Double dagger | ‡ | ||||||
| Degree | ° | 90 | Y | 90 | 90 | Y | |
| Degree fahrenheit | °F | ||||||
| Degree centigrade | °C | ||||||
| Open bullet | ° | 9F | Y | 9F | 9F | Y | |
| Large bullet | • | ||||||
| Micro (Greek mu) | μ | B6 | Y | ||||
| Ohm | Ω | ||||||
| End of proof (qed) | ∎ | ||||||
| Forms light down and right | ┌ | ||||||
| Forms light down and horizontal | ┬ | ||||||
| Forms light down and left | ┐ | ||||||
| Forms light vertical and right | ├ | ||||||
| Forms light vertical and horizontal | ┼ | ||||||
| Forms light vertical and left | ┤ | ||||||
| Forms light up and right | └ | ||||||
| Forms light up and horizontal | ┴ | ||||||
| Forms light up and left | ┘ | ||||||
| Forms light vertical | │ | ||||||
| Forms light horizontal | ─ | ||||||
| Forms heavy horizontal | ━ | ||||||
| Left arrow | ← | ||||||
| Right arrow | → | ||||||
| Non-spacing right harpoon above | ⇀ | ||||||
| Up arrow | ↑ | ||||||
| Down arrow | ↓ | ||||||
| Eighth note | ♪ | ||||||
| Forms light diagonal upper right to lower left | ╱ | ||||||
| Forms light diagonal upper left to lower right | ╲ | ||||||
| Black lower right triangle | ◢ | ||||||
| Black lower left triangle | ◣ | ||||||
| OCR hook | ⑀ | ||||||
| OCR chair | ⑁ | ||||||
| OCR fork | ⑂ | ||||||
| OCR inverted fork | ⑃ | ||||||
| OCR belt buckle | ⑄ | ||||||
| OCR bow tie | ⋈ | ||||||
| OCR branch bank identification | ⑆ | ||||||
| OCR amount of check | ⑇ | ||||||
| OCR dash (on us) | ⑈ | ||||||
| OCR customer account number | ⑉ | ||||||
| OCR double backslash | ⑊ |