Code Point Representation of Written Symbols

A code point is the numeric value assigned to a specific written symbol on a code page. For example, on the Windows 1252 code page shown, the capital letter A has a hexadecimal value of 0x41 where 0x is a prefix indicating a hexadecimal number and 41 are hexadecimal digits. Square boxes represent code points that have not been assigned a symbol.

The Windows 1252 and nearly identical UNIX and Linux ISO 8859-1 code pages contain all the commonly used symbols for North America, South America, and Western Europe.