Text

The text encoding used is a part of UTF-8. The part used is compatible with commonly used western text encodings: ASCII, ISO/IEC 8859-1 and Windows-1252.

Characters

The only allowed characters are 9, 10, 13 and 32-126, inclusive. Each element of the file must fit one character. The elements can be bytes, but need not be. Program files with element values other than these are invalid. All valid files are valid UTF-8 files.

Decimal	Hex	Character
9	0x9	Horizontal Tab, \t
10	0xA	Line Feed, \n
13	0xD	Carriage Return*, \r
32	0x20	Space
33	0x21	!
34	0x22	“
35	0x23	#
36	0x24	$
37	0x25	%
38	0x26	&
39	0x27	‘
40	0x28	(
41	0x29	)
42	0x2A	*
43	0x2B	+
44	0x2C	,
45	0x2D	–
46	0x2E	.
47	0x2F	/
48	0x30	0
49	0x31	1
50	0x32	2
51	0x33	3
52	0x34	4
53	0x35	5
54	0x36	6
55	0x37	7
56	0x38	8
57	0x39	9
58	0x3A	:
59	0x3B	;
60	0x3C	<
61	0x3D	=
62	0x3E	>
63	0x3F	?
64	0x40	@
65	0x41	A
66	0x42	B
67	0x43	C
68	0x44	D
69	0x45	E
70	0x46	F
71	0x47	G
72	0x48	H
73	0x49	I
74	0x4A	J
75	0x4B	K
76	0x4C	L
77	0x4D	M
78	0x4E	N
79	0x4F	O
80	0x50	P
81	0x51	Q
82	0x52	R
83	0x53	S
84	0x54	T
85	0x55	U
86	0x56	V
87	0x57	W
88	0x58	X
89	0x59	Y
90	0x5A	Z
91	0x5B	[
92	0x5C	\
93	0x5D	]
94	0x5E	^
95	0x5F	_
96	0x60	`
97	0x61	a
98	0x62	b
99	0x63	c
100	0x64	d
101	0x65	e
102	0x66	f
103	0x67	g
104	0x68	h
105	0x69	i
106	0x6A	j
107	0x6B	k
108	0x6C	l
109	0x6D	m
110	0x6E	n
111	0x6F	o
112	0x70	p
113	0x71	q
114	0x72	r
115	0x73	s
116	0x74	t
117	0x75	u
118	0x76	v
119	0x77	w
120	0x78	x
121	0x79	y
122	0x7A	z
123	0x7B	{
124	0x7C	|
125	0x7D	}
126	0x7E	~

* Se notes on newlines.

Notes on newlines

Files must use a newline scheme consistently. A file must either:

• Use only \n, which is read as is.
• Use only \r\n, which is read as \n.
• Use only \r, which is read as \n.