ID: Q118583
6.00 WINDOWS kbusage kbenv
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Characters for filenames of documents saved in or opened from Word 6.0 for Windows NT must exist in both the Windows ANSI character set and the OEM character set to be valid. The U.S. version of Windows NT uses the IBM Extended character set (code page 437) as the OEM character set.
Characters that are supported:
! # $ % & ' ( ) + , - . ; = @ [ ] _ ^ ` { } ~
Character Description ANSI Code CP437 Code
--------------------- --------- ----------
Lowercase script letter F 131 159
Inverted exclamation mark 161 173
Cent sign 162 155
Pound sign (pound sterling) 163 156
Yen sign 165 157
Feminine ordinal indicator 170 166
Left pointing guillemet 171 174
Not sign 172 170
Degree sign 176 248
Plus-or-minus sign 177 241
Superscript 2 178 253
Micro sign 181 230
Middle dot 183 250
Masculine ordinal indicator 186 167
Right pointing guillemet 187 175
One-quarter fraction 188 172
One-half fraction 189 171
Inverted Question mark 191 168
Uppercase letter A ring 197 143
Uppercase letter AE 198 146
Uppercase letter C cedilla 199 128
Lowercase sharp S (ess-zed) 223 225
Lowercase letter A ring 229 134
Lowercase letter ae 230 145
Lowercase letter c cedilla 231 135
Division sign 247 246
Character Description ANSI Code
--------------------- ---------
Quotation mark (") 34
Asterisk (*) 42
Slash (/) 47
Colon (:) 58
Less than sign (<) 60
Greater than sign (>) 62
Question mark (?) 63
Backslash (\) 92
Vertical bar (pipe) (|) 124
Low single comma quotation mark 130
Low double comma quotation mark 132
Horizontal ellipsis (...) 133
Dagger 134
Double dagger 135
Spacing circumflex 136
Per mille sign 137
Uppercase S hacek 138
Left pointing guillemet 139
Uppercase OE 140
Single turned comma quotation mark 145
Single comma quotation mark 146
Double turned comma quotation mark 147
Double comma quotation mark 148
Bullet 149
En dash 150
Em dash 151
Raised tilde 152
Trademark 153
Lowercase S hacek 154
Right pointing quillemet 155
Lowercase OE 156
Uppercase Y diaeresis 159
Currency sign 164
Broken vertical bar 166
Section sign 167
Spacing diaeresis 168
Copyright sign 169
Soft hyphen 173
Registered trademark sign 174
Spacing Macron (overline) 175
Superscript 3 179
Spacing acute 180
Paragraph sign 182
Spacing cedilla 184
Superscript 1 185
Three quarters fraction 190
Uppercase A grave 192
Uppercase A acute 193
Uppercase A circumflex 194
Uppercase A tilde 195
Uppercase E grave 200
Uppercase E circumflex 202
Uppercase E diaeresis 203
Uppercase I grave 204
Uppercase I acute 205
Uppercase I circumflex 206
Uppercase I diaeresis 207
Uppercase Eth 208
Uppercase O grave 210
Uppercase O acute 211
Uppercase O circumflex 212
Uppercase O tilde 213
Multiplication sign 215
Uppercase O slash 216
Uppercase U grave 217
Uppercase U acute 218
Uppercase U circumflex 219
Uppercase U diaeresis 220
Uppercase Y grave 221
Uppercase Thorn 222
Lowercase A tilde 227
Lowercase Eth 240
Lowercase O tilde 245
Lowercase O slash 248
Lowercase Y acute 253
Lowercase Thorn 254
Character Description CP437 Code
--------------------- ----------
Quotation mark (") 34
Asterisk (*) 42
Slash (/) 47
Colon (:) 58
Less than sign (<) 60
Greater than sign (>) 62
Question mark (?) 63
Backslash (\) 92
Vertical bar (pipe) (|) 124
All linedraw and shading 176 - 223
characters
Peseta sign 158
Not sign 170
Greek lowercase alpha 224
Greek uppercase gamma 226
Greek lowercase pi 227
Greek uppercase sigma 228
Greek lowercase sigma 229
Greek lowercase tau 231
Greek uppercase phi 232
Greek uppercase theta 233
Greek uppercase omega 234
Greek lowercase delta 235
Infinity 236
Empty Set (diameter symbol) 237
Lowercase epsilon (Latin) 238
Intersection (cap) 239
Identical to 240
Greater than or equal to 242
Less than or equal to 243
Top half integral 244
Bottom half integral 245
Almost equal to 247
Square root 251
Superscript lowercase N 252
Black square 254
White square (quadrature) 255
"The Unicode Standard, Worldwide Character Encoding, Version 1.0, Volume 1", various pages
KBCategory: kbusage kbenv KBSubcategory:
Version : 6.00
Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: February 5, 1998