ID Innovations Classic Line Series Magnetic Stripe Readers - Manual (Page 28)

Appendices
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Appendix-B Magnetic Stripe Character Sets
These tables show the character sets for 6 bit and 4 bit data. Track 1 is 6 bit, track 2 is 4 bit, and track 3 can be 4 or 6 bit.
6 Bit Character Set
Bits Bits Bits Bits
654321 Charact
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654321 Charact
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654321 Charact
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654321 Charact
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000000 Space 010000 0 100000 @ H 110000 P
000001 ! H 010001 1 100001 A 110001 Q
000010 " H 010010 2 100010 B 110010 R
000011 # 010011 3 100011 C 110011 S
000100 $ 010100 4 100100 D 110100 T
000101 % 010101 5 100101 E 110101 U
000110 & H 010110 6 100110 F 110110 V
000111 ' H 010111 7 100111 G 110111 W
001000 ( 011000 8 101000 H 111000 X
001001 ) 011001 9 101001 I 111001 Y
001010 * H 011010 : H 101010 J 111010 Z
001011 + H 011011 ; H 101011 K 111011 [
001100 , H 011100 < H 101100 L 111100 \
001101 - 011101 = H 101101 M 111101 ]
001110 . 011110 > H 101110 N 111110 ^
001111 / 011111 ? 101111 O 111111 _ H
H Hardware Control Character
4 Bit Character Set
Bits
4321 Charact
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0000 0
0001 1
0010 2
0011 3
0100 4
0101 5
0110 6
0111 7
1000 8
1001 9
1010 : H
1011 ;
1100 < H
1101 =
1110 > H
1111 ?
H Hardware Control Character