Those characters refer to the source control.
- ? – Unversioned
- M – Modified
- A – Added
- A+ – Moved / renamed
- U – Newer version of a file on source control
- I – Item is being ignored (e.g. with the svn:ignore property).
- ! – Item is missing (e.g. you moved or deleted it without using svn). This also indicates that a directory is incomplete (a checkout or update was interrupted).
Ref: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.ref.svn.c.status.html