Character Set of ActionScript
Notes:
Character set of Action Script:
First step in learning any language is; knowing its character set.
How did we have learnt English language?
Digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Alphabets: A - Z & a – z
Special Characters:, , ., ;, : ~,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),-,_,+,= etc.
Character set: Set of characters used in the language for forming words, sentences, paragraphs etc.
As Action Script is also a language, it also has set of characters used in forming tokens, instructions, programs etc.
Digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Alphabets: A - Z & a – z
Special Characters:, , ., ;, : ~,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),-,_,+,= etc.
Escape sequence characters: \n, \t , etc.
Action Script character set contains both ASCII and UNICODE character set.
For every character there is unique code / number in ASCII as well as UNICODE character set.
ASCII (7bit - 128): American Standards Code for Information Interchange
UNICODE (16bit – 65536): Universal Code (preceded by \u)
