List of special characters for passwords
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Short description: ASCII characters other than letters and numbers that can be used in passwords
This is a list of ASCII printing characters other than letters and digits. There are 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often when a web site specifies that "punctuation" is allowed (or needed) in a password, it means these characters, and not any other Unicode characters.
| Description | Glyph | Code | Decimal | Octal | # | Google/Gmail | Microsoft Windows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space |
|
U+0020 | 32 | 040 | 0001 | No | No |
| Exclamation mark | ! | U+0021 | 33 | 041 | 0002 | Yes | Yes |
| Quotation mark | " | U+0022 | 34 | 042 | 0003 | ||
| Number sign | # | U+0023 | 35 | 043 | 0004 | ||
| Dollar sign | $ | U+0024 | 36 | 044 | 0005 | ||
| Percent sign | % | U+0025 | 37 | 045 | 0006 | ||
| Ampersand | & | U+0026 | 38 | 046 | 0007 | ||
| Apostrophe | ' | U+0027 | 39 | 047 | 0008 | ||
| Left parenthesis | ( | U+0028 | 40 | 050 | 0009 | ||
| Right parenthesis | ) | U+0029 | 41 | 051 | 0010 | ||
| Asterisk | * | U+002A | 42 | 052 | 0011 | ||
| Plus sign | + | U+002B | 43 | 053 | 0012 | ||
| Comma | , | U+002C | 44 | 054 | 0013 | ||
| Hyphen-minus | - | U+002D | 45 | 055 | 0014 | ||
| Full stop | . | U+002E | 46 | 056 | 0015 | ||
| Slash (Solidus) | / | U+002F | 47 | 057 | 0016 | ||
| Colon | : | U+003A | 58 | 072 | 0027 | ||
| Semicolon | ; | U+003B | 59 | 073 | 0028 | ||
| Less-than sign | < | U+003C | 60 | 074 | 0029 | ||
| Equal sign | = | U+003D | 61 | 075 | 0030 | ||
| Greater-than sign | > | U+003E | 62 | 076 | 0031 | ||
| Question mark | ? | U+003F | 63 | 077 | 0032 | ||
| At sign | @ | U+0040 | 64 | 0100 | 0033 | ||
| Left Square Bracket | [ | U+005B | 91 | 0133 | 0060 | ||
| Backslash | \ | U+005C | 92 | 0134 | 0061 | ||
| Right Square Bracket | ] | U+005D | 93 | 0135 | 0062 | ||
| Circumflex accent | ^ | U+005E | 94 | 0136 | 0063 | ||
| Low line | _ | U+005F | 95 | 0137 | 0064 | ||
| Grave accent | ` | U+0060 | 96 | 0140 | 0065 | ||
| Left Curly Bracket | { | U+007B | 123 | 0173 | 0092 | ||
| Vertical bar | | | U+007C | 124 | 0174 | 0093 | ||
| Right Curly Bracket | } | U+007D | 125 | 0175 | 0094 | ||
| Tilde | ~ | U+007E | 126 | 0176 | 0095 | ||
References
- Unicode 7.0 Character Code Charts, Unicode, Inc.
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