IEC608 Closed Caption Control codes

Source: ANSI/CTA-608-E (Annex F, FCC Rules Excerpts)

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Table 49 — Special Characters

Note: Each hex value must be preceded by 0x11 (Data Channel 1) or 0x19 (Data Channel 2).

Hex	Glyph	Description
30	®	Registered mark
31	°	Degree sign
32	½	One-half
33	¿	Inverted question mark
34	™	Trademark
35	¢	Cents sign
36	£	Pound sterling
37	♪	Music note
38	à	Lower-case a with grave
39	␠	Transparent space
3A	è	Lower-case e with grave
3B	â	Lower-case a with circumflex
3C	ê	Lower-case e with circumflex
3D	î	Lower-case i with circumflex
3E	ô	Lower-case o with circumflex
3F	û	Lower-case u with circumflex

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Table 50 — Standard Characters

0x20–0x3F

Hex	Glyph	Description
20	␠	Space
21	!	Exclamation mark
22	"	Quotation mark
23	#	Number sign
24	$	Dollar sign
25	%	Percent sign
26	&	Ampersand
27	'	Apostrophe
28	(	Open parenthesis
29	)	Close parenthesis
2A	á	Lower-case a with acute
2B	+	Plus sign
2C	,	Comma
2D	-	Hyphen
2E	.	Period
2F	/	Slash
30–39	0–9	Digits
3A	:	Colon
3B	;	Semicolon
3C	<	Less-than
3D	=	Equals
3E	>	Greater-than
3F	?	Question mark

0x40–0x5F (Uppercase)

Hex	Glyph	Description
40	@	At sign
41–5A	A–Z	Upper-case letters
5B	[	Open bracket
5C	é	Lower-case e with acute
5D	]	Close bracket
5E	í	Lower-case i with acute
5F	ó	Lower-case o with acute

0x60–0x7F (Lowercase & Symbols)

Hex	Glyph	Description
60	ú	Lower-case u with acute
61–7A	a–z	Lower-case letters
7B	ç	Lower-case c with cedilla
7C	÷	Division sign
7D	Ñ	Upper-case N with tilde
7E	ñ	Lower-case n with tilde
7F	■	Solid block

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Table 51 — Mid-Row Codes

Data Ch 1	Data Ch 2	Attribute
11 20	19 20	White
11 21	19 21	White + underline
11 22	19 22	Green
11 23	19 23	Green + underline
11 24	19 24	Blue
11 25	19 25	Blue + underline
11 26	19 26	Cyan
11 27	19 27	Cyan + underline
11 28	19 28	Red
11 29	19 29	Red + underline
11 2A	19 2A	Yellow
11 2B	19 2B	Yellow + underline
11 2C	19 2C	Magenta
11 2D	19 2D	Magenta + underline
11 2E	19 2E	Italics
11 2F	19 2F	Italics + underline

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Table 52 — Miscellaneous Control Codes

Data Ch 1	Data Ch 2	Mnemonic	Description
14 20	1C 20	RCL	Resume Caption Loading
14 21	1C 21	BS	Backspace
14 22	1C 22	AOF	Reserved (Alarm Off)
14 23	1C 23	AON	Reserved (Alarm On)
14 24	1C 24	DER	Delete to End of Row
14 25	1C 25	RU2	Roll-Up Captions (2 rows)
14 26	1C 26	RU3	Roll-Up Captions (3 rows)
14 27	1C 27	RU4	Roll-Up Captions (4 rows)
14 28	1C 28	FON	Flash On
14 29	1C 29	RDC	Resume Direct Captioning
14 2A	1C 2A	TR	Text Restart
14 2B	1C 2B	RTD	Resume Text Display
14 2C	1C 2C	EDM	Erase Displayed Memory
14 2D	1C 2D	CR	Carriage Return
14 2E	1C 2E	ENM	Erase Non-Displayed Memory
14 2F	1C 2F	EOC	End of Caption (Flip Memories)
17 21	1F 21	TO1	Tab Offset 1 Column
17 22	1F 22	TO2	Tab Offset 2 Columns
17 23	1F 23	TO3	Tab Offset 3 Columns

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Table 53 — Preamble Address Codes (PACs)

First Byte (Row Selection)

Row	Data Ch 1	Data Ch 2
1	11	19
2	11	19
3	12	1A
4	12	1A
5	15	1D
6	15	1D
7	16	1E
8	16	1E
9	17	1F
10	17	1F
11	10	18
12	13	1B
13	13	1B
14	14	1C
15	14	1C

Second Byte (Color / Indent)

Attribute	Even Rows	Odd Rows
White	40	60
White + underline	41	61
Green	42	62
Green + underline	43	63
Blue	44	64
Blue + underline	45	65
Cyan	46	66
Cyan + underline	47	67
Red	48	68
Red + underline	49	69
Yellow	4A	6A
Yellow + underline	4B	6B
Magenta	4C	6C
Magenta + underline	4D	6D
White italics	4E	6E
White italics + underline	4F	6F
Indent 0	50	70
Indent 4	52	72
Indent 8	54	74
Indent 12	56	76
Indent 16	58	78
Indent 20	5A	7A
Indent 24	5C	7C
Indent 28	5E	7E

Note: All indent PACs force white as the color attribute.

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