23.6 Graphic Characters

There are 96 graphic characters. Two of these, the space and the delete, are not “visible”, and may be ciassified with the control characters.

The graphic characters may be divided into three groups of 32 characters, which may be roughly characterised as

Of course, since there are only 26 alphabetic characters, the latter two groups include some special characters as well. In particular, the last group includes the following six nonalphabetic characters:

140

reverse apostrophe

173

{

left brace

174

|

vertical bar

175

}

right brace

176

~

tilde

177

 

delete