Author: Pawel Krawczyk
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Unicode HOWTODifference Between UNICODE and ASCII - Scaler TopicsChoose text encoding when you open and save filesASCII | Definition, History, Trivia, & FactsPassword special characters is a selection of punctuation characters that are present on standard US keyboard and frequently used in passwords.
| Character | Name | Unicode |
|---|---|---|
| Space | U+0020 | |
| ! | Exclamation | U+0021 |
| ” | Double quote | U+0022 |
| # | Number sign (hash) | U+0023 |
| $ | Dollar sign | U+0024 |
| % | Percent | U+0025 |
| & | Ampersand | U+0026 |
| ’ | Single quote | U+0027 |
| ( | Left parenthesis | U+0028 |
| ) | Right parenthesis | U+0029 |
| * | Asterisk | U+002A |
| + | Plus | U+002B |
| , | Comma | U+002C |
| - | Minus | U+002D |
| . | Full stop | U+002E |
| / | Slash | U+002F |
| : | Colon | U+003A |
| ; | Semicolon | U+003B |
| < | Less than | U+003C |
| = | Equal sign | U+003D |
| > | Greater than | U+003E |
| ? | Question mark | U+003F |
| @ | At sign | U+0040 |
| [ | Left bracket | U+005B |
| \ | Backslash | U+005C |
| ] | Right bracket | U+005D |
| ^ | Caret | U+005E |
| _ | Underscore | U+005F |
| ` | Grave accent (backtick) | U+0060 |
| { | Left brace | U+007B |
| | | Vertical bar | U+007C |
| } | Right brace | U+007D |
| ~ | Tilde | U+007E |
The same list as string (between double quotes): " !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"
Various operating systems and applications may apply limitations to this set:
