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ECL supports all standard and semi-standard characters listed in Section 2.2.1 of [see Steele:84]. Non-printing characters have the following character codes.
Character | Code (in octal)
|
#\Null | 000
|
#\Space | 040
|
#\Newline | 012
|
#\Backspace | 010
|
#\Tab | 011
|
#\Linefeed | 012
|
#\Page | 014
|
#\Return | 015
|
#\Rubout | 177
|
Note that #\Linefeed
is synonymous with #\Newline
and
thus is a member of standard-char
. Other semi-standard characters are
not members of standard-char
.