Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Control-C is often used to interrupt a program or process, a standard that started with Dec operating systems. [citation needed] In TOPS-20, it was used to gain the system's attention before logging in. mIRC uses ETX as the escape character to start a command to set the color.
The data link escape character was intended to be a signal to the other end of a data link that the following character is a control character such as STX or ETX. For example a packet may be structured in the following way <STX> <PAYLOAD> <ETX>.
In 1973, ECMA-35 and ISO 2022 [18] attempted to define a method so an 8-bit "extended ASCII" code could be converted to a corresponding 7-bit code, and vice versa. [19] In a 7-bit environment, the Shift Out would change the meaning of the 96 bytes 0x20 through 0x7F [a] [21] (i.e. all but the C0 control codes), to be the characters that an 8-bit environment would print if it used the same code ...
In Unicode, characters can have a unique name. A character can also have one or more alias names. An alias name can be an abbreviation, a C0 or C1 control name, a correction, an alternate name or a figment. An alias too is unique over all names and aliases, and therefore identifying.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Control characters" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 ...
Control-C is a common computer command. It is generated by holding down the Ctrl key and typing the C key. In graphical user interface environments, control+C is often used to copy highlighted text to the clipboard . [ 1 ]
Control Pictures is a Unicode block containing characters for graphically representing the C0 control codes, and other control characters. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Pictures for Control Codes .
ETX may refer to: ETX (form factor), Embedded Technology eXtended computer-on-module specification; Meade ETX telescope, popular line of compact Maksutov-Cassegrain telescopes made by Meade Instruments Corporation; End-of-text character, character code within the C0 and C1 control codes range; Expected Transmission Count, network routing metric