VMS Help FORTRAN, Character Sets  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Compaq Fortran supports the following characters:

   o  The Fortran character set, which consists of those ASCII
      characters that can appear in Compaq Fortran language syntax.  The
      Fortran character set is a superset of the FORTRAN-77 standard
      character set; it includes space and tab characters.

   o  Other printable characters, which can appear in comments and
      character and Hollerith constants.

   o  Nonprintable characters.

  Additional Information (explode) :

• ASCII
• DEC Multinational
• FORTRAN 77 Standard
• FORTRAN
• Printable Characters
• Nonprintable Characters