In ECMap, ASCII characters are used as delimiters—special characters that separate objects. For example, they are used to separate objects such as segments, elements, subelements, fields, components, and subcomponents. ASCII characters are also used as escape, or release, characters and as repeat, or repetition, characters.
The following pages contain the following information for each of the ASCII characters that can be used in ECMap:
Decimal representation
Binary representation
Hexadecimal representation
Description
Abbreviation
Printable character
Non-printable character