VSI Pascal uses the extended American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set. The is extended ASCII character set contains 256 characters, which include the following: o Uppercase letters A through Z and lowercase letters a through z o Integers 0 through 9 o Special characters, such as the ampersand (&), question mark (?), and equal sign (=) o Nonprinting characters, such as the space, tab, line feed, carriage return, and form feed (use of these characters may improve the legibility of your programs) o Extended, unspecified characters with numeric codes from 128 to 255 The VSI Pascal compiler does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters except when they appear inside apostrophes. For a complete listing of the ASCII character set, see the "HP Pascal Language Reference Manual."