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Control character

In computing and telecommunications, a control character or non-printing character (NPC) is a code point in a character set that does not represent a written character or symbol. They are used as in-band signaling to cause effects other than the addition of a symbol to the text. All other characters are mainly graphic characters, also known as printing…

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Control character

Nodes99
Edges98
Triples135
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020202
Components1

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Control character

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related to Printing and display control · 30
Control character → An, Arabic, ASA, Baudot, BS, Control, CR, Escape, FF/NP, FIGS, Figures, Form, Hebrew, However, HT/TAB, It, Later, Letters, LF/NL, LTRS
related to Data structuring · 26
Control character → CR/LF, Each, EM, End, File, For, FS, Group, GS, It, JSON, JSON Text Sequences, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Record, RFC, RS, TAB, The
related to How control characters map to keyboards · 17
Control character → AND, ASCII, ASCII-based, BELL, Cntl, Control, Ctrl, Ctrl-Space, DEL, For, In, Neither, Other, Some, The, The NULL, When
related to In ASCII · 14
Control character → All, API, ASCII, C0, C1, CR, DEL, ECMA-35, Extended ASCII, ISO, LF, The, There, This
related to In Unicode · 12
Control character → C0, C1, Cc, Cf, Control-characters, Formatting, General Category, Name, The Cc, Their General Category, These, Unicode
related to history · 9
Control character → Baudot, CR, DEL, LF, Morse, Murray, NUL, Procedural, The
related to Miscellaneous codes · 8
Control character → ASCII, BEL, Code, For, Many, Modern, SYN, Synchronous
see also · 8
Control character → ADM-3A, Arrow, C1, Computer, Control, HJKL, Sending, Series
related to Transmission control · 6
Control character → CRC, ETB, ETX, SOH, STX, The
related to Design purpose · 1
Control character → The

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control character characters used code ascii printing data end also escape codes one transmission often key text line systems paper

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
a bell or beep sound or the screen flashing.0x08instance ofwhich may cause the device to emit a warning0.80text
the Hebrewinstance ofand the rightmost position for right-to-left scripts0.80text
Arabic alphabetsinstance ofand the rightmost position for right-to-left scripts0.80text
STX or ETXinstance ofwas intended to be a signal to the other end of a data link that the following character is a control character0.80text
Control characterrelated to Data structuringThe0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringFile0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringGroup0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringRecord0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringUnit0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringFS0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringGS0.60section
Control characterrelated to Data structuringRS0.60section

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