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This table was assembled from a handwritten note lurking in an inherited manual, some Prime manuals, and the Unicode specification. It was collated by Dennis Boone, 2011.

Prime ECS was basically ISO-8859-1 turned upside down. Prime had long used the 7-bit ASCII character set, but due to heritage from the Honeywell S/16 family and Teletype machines, did so in mark parity form (i.e. with the high-order bit set). Thus, the conventional representation of ASCII in the machine had already "taken" the upper moby, so the characters of Latin-1 which were above point 127 had to be flipped into the lower moby.

A chart of Prime ASCII is available.

Prime ECS
Dec Hex Oct Character Mnemonic Description
000 00 000   RES1 ?
001 01 001   RES2 ?
002 02 002   RES3 ?
003 03 003   RES4 ?
004 04 004   IND Index
005 05 005   NEL Next line
006 06 006   SSA Start of selected area
007 07 007   ESA End of selected area
008 08 010   HTS Character tabulation set
009 09 011   HTJ Character tabulation with justification
010 0A 012   VTS Line tabulation set
011 0B 013   PLD Partial line forward
012 0C 014   PLU Partial line backward
013 0D 015   RI Reverse line feed
014 0E 016   SS2 Single shift two
015 0F 017   SS3 Single shift three
016 10 020   DCS Device control string
017 11 021   PU1 Private use one
018 12 022   PU2 Private use two
019 13 023   STS Set transmit state
020 14 024   CCH Cancel character
021 15 025   MW Message waiting
022 16 026   SPA Start of guarded area
023 17 027   EPA End of guarded area
024 18 030   RES5 ?
025 19 031   RES6 ?
026 1A 032   RES7 ?
027 1B 033   CSI Control sequence introducer
028 1C 034   ST String terminator
029 1D 035   OSC Operating system command
030 1E 036   PM Privacy message
031 1F 037   APC Applicaation program command
032 20 040   NBSP No-break space
033 21 041 ¡ INVE Inverted exclamation mark
034 22 042 ¢ CENT Cent sign
035 23 043 £ PND Pound sign
036 24 044 ¤ CURR Currency sign
037 25 045 ¥ YEN Yen sign
038 26 046 ¦ BBAR Broken bar
039 27 047 § SECT Section sign
040 28 050 ¨ DIA Diaeresis
041 29 051 © COPY Copyright sign
042 2A 052 ª FOI Feminine ordinal indicator
043 2B 053 « LAQM Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
044 2C 054 ¬ NOT Not sign
045 2D 055 ­ SHY Soft hyphen
046 2E 056 ® TM Registered sign
047 2F 057 ¯ MACN Macron
048 30 060 ° DEGR Degree sign
049 31 061 ± PLMI Plus-minus sign
050 32 062 ² SPS2 Superscript 2
051 33 063 ³ SPS3 Superscript 3
052 34 064 ´ AAC Acute accent
053 35 065 µ LCMU Micro sign
054 36 066 PARA Pilcrow sign
055 37 067 · MIDD Middle dot
056 38 070 ¸ CED Cedilla
057 39 071 ¹ SPS1 Superscript 1
058 3A 072 º MOI Masculine ordinal indicator
059 3B 073 » RAQM Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
060 3C 074 ¼ FR14 Vulgar fraction one quarter
061 3D 075 ½ FR12 Vulgar fraction one half
062 3E 076 ¾ FR34 Vulgar fraction three quarters
063 3F 077 ¿ INVQ Inverted question mark
064 40 100 À UCAG Latin capital letter A with grave
065 41 101 Á UCAA Latin capital letter A with acute
066 42 102 Â UCAC Latin capital letter A with circumflex
067 43 103 Ã UCAT Latin capital letter A with tilde
068 44 104 Ä UCAD Latin capital letter A with diaeresis
069 45 105 Å UCAR Latin capital letter A with ring above
070 46 106 Æ UCAE Latin capital letter AE
071 47 107 Ç UCCC Latin capital letter C with cedilla
072 48 110 È UCEG Latin capital letter E with grave
073 49 111 É UCEA Latin capital letter E with acute
074 4A 112 Ê UCEC Latin capital letter E with circumflex
075 4B 113 Ë UCED Latin capital letter E with diaeresis
076 4C 114 Ì UCIG Latin capital letter I with grave
077 4D 115 Í UCIA Latin capital letter I with acute
078 4E 116 Î UCIC Latin capital letter I with circumflex
079 4F 117 Ï UCID Latin capital letter I with diaeresis
080 50 120 Ð UETH Latin capital letter ETH
081 51 121 Ñ UCNT Latin capital letter N with tilde
082 52 122 Ò UCOG Latin capital letter O with grave
083 53 123 Ó UCOA Latin capital letter O with acute
084 54 124 Ô UCOC Latin capital letter O with circumflex
085 55 125 Õ UCOT Latin capital letter O with tilde
086 56 126 Ö UCOD Latin capital letter O with diaeresis
087 57 127 × MULT Multiplication sign
088 58 130 Ø UCOO Latin capital letter O with stroke
089 59 131 Ù UCUG Latin capital letter U with grave
090 5A 132 Ú UCUA Latin capital letter U with acute
091 5B 133 Û UCUC Latin capital letter U with circumflex
092 5C 134 Ü UCUD Latin capital letter U with diaeresis
093 5D 135 Ý UCYA Latin capital letter Y with acute
094 5E 136 Þ UTHN Latin capital letter THORN
095 5F 137 ß LGSS Latin small letter sharp s
096 60 140 à LCAG Latin small letter a with grave
097 61 141 á LCAA Latin small letter a with acute
098 62 142 â LCAC Latin small letter a with circumflex
099 63 143 ã LCAT Latin small letter a with tilde
100 64 144 ä LCAD Latin small letter a with diaeresis
101 65 145 å LCAR Latin small letter a with ring above
102 66 146 æ LCAE Latin small leter ae
103 67 147 ç LCCC Latin small letter c with cedilla
104 68 150 è LCEG Latin small letter e with grave
105 69 151 é LCEA Latin small letter e with acute
106 6A 152 ê LCEC Latin small letter e with circumflex
107 6B 153 ë LCED Latin small letter e with diaeresis
108 6C 154 ì LCIG Latin small letter i with grave
109 6D 155 í LCIA Latin small letter i with acute
110 6E 156 î LCIC Latin small letter i with circumflex
111 6F 157 ï LCID Latin small letter i with diaeresis
112 70 160 ð LETH Latin small letter eth
113 71 161 ñ LCNT Latin small letter n with tilde
114 72 162 ò LCOG Latin small letter o with grave
115 73 163 ó LCOA Latin small letter o with acute
116 74 164 ô LCOC Latin small letter o with circumflex
117 75 165 õ LCOT Latin small letter o with tilde
118 76 166 ö LCOD Latin small letter o with diaeresis
119 77 167 ÷ DIV Division sign
120 78 170 ø LCOO Latin small letter o with stroke
121 79 171 ù LCUG Latin small letter u with grave
122 7A 172 ú LCUA Latin small letter u with acute
123 7B 173 û LCUC Latin small letter u with circumflex
124 7C 174 ü LCUD Latin small letter u with diaeresis
125 7D 175 ý LCYA Latin small letter y with acute
126 7E 176 þ LTHN Latin small letter thorn
127 7F 177 ÿ LCYD Latin small letter y with diaeresis

Sources

  • A note inserted into an inherited manual
  • Character names taken from Unicode