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YUSCII was an informal name for JUS I.B1.002 (Latin script, used for Serbian, Croatian and
Slovenian language) and JUS I.B1.003 (Cyrillic script, with variants for Serbian and Macedonian
language), national variant of ISO 646, 7-bit Latinic character encoding standard, and used in
Yugoslavia before widespread use of later ISO-8859-2, Microsoft and Unicode standards. It was
named after ASCII, having the first word "American" replaced with "Yugoslav": "Yugoslav
Standard Code for Information Interchange". It maintained the same codes for all essential
characters and replaced a number of symbols with letters specific to languages spoken in
Yugoslavia.
YUSCII was originally developed for teletype telegraphs but it also spread for computer use.
This was widely considered a bad idea among software developers who needed the original
ASCII such as {, [, }, ], ^, ~, |, \ in their source code. Numerous attempts to replace it with
something better kept failing due to limited support. Eventually, Microsoft's introduction of code
pages, appearance of Unicode and availability of fonts finally spelled sure (but nevertheless still
slow) end of YUSCII.

Codepage layout
Code points remained largely the same as in ASCII to maintain maximum compatibility.
Following table shows allocation of character codes in YUSCII. Red entries are (somewhat)
different from ASCII. Both Latin and Cyrillic glyphs are shown:
The following character set table may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please improve this table if you can.

Binary
0010 0000
0010 0001
0010 0010
0010 0011
0010 0100
0010 0101
0010 0110
0010 0111
0010 1000
0010 1001
0010 1010
0010 1011

Dec Hex Glyph

(blank)
32
20
()
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43

21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
2A
2B

!
"
#
$
%
&
'
(
)
*
+

Binary Dec Hex Glyph

0100 0000 64
40 /
0100 0001 65
41
A/
0100 0010 66
42
B/
0100 0011 67
43
C/
0100 0100 68
44 D/
0100 0101 69
45
E/
0100 0110 70
46
F/
0100 0111 71
47
G/
0100 1000 72
48
H/
0100 1001 73
49
I/
0100 1010 74
4A
J/
0100 1011 75
4B
K/
0100 1100 76
4C
L/

Binary
0110 0000
0110 0001
0110 0010
0110 0011
0110 0100
0110 0101
0110 0110
0110 0111
0110 1000
0110 1001
0110 1010
0110 1011
0110 1100

Dec Hex Glyph

96
60
/
97
61
a/
98
62
b/
99
63
c/
100 64
d/
101 65
e/
102 66
f/
103 67
g/
104 68
h/
105 69
i/
106 6A
j/
107 6B
k/
108 6C
l/

0010 1100
0010 1101
0010 1110
0010 1111
0011 0000
0011 0001
0011 0010
0011 0011
0011 0100
0011 0101
0011 0110
0011 0111
0011 1000
0011 1001
0011 1010
0011 1011
0011 1100
0011 1101
0011 1110
0011 1111

44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63

2C
2D
2E
2F
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
3A
3B
3C
3D
3E
3F

,
.
/
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
:
;
<
=
>
?

0100 1101
0100 1110
0100 1111
0101 0000
0101 0001
0101 0010
0101 0011
0101 0100
0101 0101
0101 0110
0101 0111
0101 1000
0101 1001
0101 1010
0101 1011
0101 1100
0101 1101
0101 1110
0101 1111

77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95

4D
4E
4F
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
5A
5B
5C
5D
5E
5F

M/
N/
O/
P/
Q/
R/
S/
T/
U/
V/
W/
X/
Y/
Z/
/
/
/
/
_

0110 1101
0110 1110
0110 1111
0111 0000
0111 0001
0111 0010
0111 0011
0111 0100
0111 0101
0111 0110
0111 0111
0111 1000
0111 1001
0111 1010
0111 1011
0111 1100
0111 1101
0111 1110

109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126

6D
6E
6F
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
7A
7B
7C
7D
7E

m/
n/
o/
p/
q/
r/
s/
t/
u/
v/
w/
x/
y/
z/
/
/
d/
/

Control characters
Control characters are the same as in ASCII:
The following character set table may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please improve this table if you can.

Hex Abbr PR1

CS2

Binary

Oct

Dec

Description

0000 0000

000

00

NUL

^@

Null character

0000 0001

001

01

SOH

^A

Start of Header

0000 0010

002

02

STX

^B

Start of Text

0000 0011

003

03

ETX

^C

End of Text

0000 0100

004

04

EOT

^D

End of Transmission

0000 0101

005

05

ENQ

^E

Enquiry

0000 0110

006

06

ACK

^F

Acknowledgment

0000 0111

007

07

BEL

^G

Bell

0000 1000

010

08

BS

^H

Backspace3, 7

0000 1001

011

09

HT

^I

Horizontal Tab

0000 1010

012

10

0A

LF

^J

Line feed

0000 1011

013

11

0B

VT

^K

Vertical Tab

0000 1100

014

12

0C

FF

^L

Form feed

0000 1101

015

13

0D

CR

^M

Carriage return6

0000 1110

016

14

0E

SO

^N

Shift Out

0000 1111

017

15

0F

SI

^O

Shift In

0001 0000

020

16

10

DLE

^P

Data Link Escape

0001 0001

021

17

11

DC1

^Q

Device Control 1 (oft. XON)

0001 0010

022

18

12

DC2

^R

Device Control 2

0001 0011

023

19

13

DC3

^S

Device Control 3 (oft. XOFF)

0001 0100

024

20

14

DC4

^T

Device Control 4

0001 0101

025

21

15

NAK

^U

Negative Acknowledgement

0001 0110

026

22

16

SYN

^V

Synchronous Idle

0001 0111

027

23

17

ETB

^W

End of Trans. Block

0001 1000

030

24

18

CAN

^X

Cancel

0001 1001

031

25

19

EM

^Y

End of Medium

0001 1010

032

26

1A

SUB

^Z

Substitute

0001 1011

033

27

1B

ESC

^[

Escape5

0001 1100

034

28

1C

FS

^\

File Separator

0001 1101

035

29

1D

GS

^]

Group Separator

0001 1110

036

30

1E

RS

^^

Record Separator

0001 1111

037

31

1F

US

^_

Unit Separator

0111 1111

177

127

7F

DEL

^?

Delete4, 7

1. Printable Representation, the Unicode glyphs reserved for representing control characters when
it is necessary to print or display them rather than have them perform their intended function.
2. Control key Sequence, the traditional key sequences for inputting control characters. The caret
(^) represents the "Control" or "Ctrl" key that must be held down while pressing the second key
in the sequence. The caret-key representation is also used by some software to represent
control characters.
3. The Backspace character can also be entered by pressing the "Backspace", "Bksp", or key on
some systems.
4. The Delete character can also be entered by pressing the "Delete" or "Del" key. It can also be
entered by pressing the "Backspace", "Bksp", or key on some systems.
5. The Escape character can also be entered by pressing the "Escape" or "Esc" key on some
systems.
6. The Carriage Return character can also be entered by pressing the "Return", "Ret", "Enter", or
key on most systems.
7. The ambiguity surrounding the Backspace key comes from systems that translated the DEL
control character into a BS (backspace) before transmitting it. Some software was unable to
process the character and would display "^H" instead.

See also

Languages: Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian

Cyrillic alphabet
Scientific transliteration
Iskra Delta Partner, a computer with built-in YUSCII