ASCII Device Control Characters

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ASCII Device Control Characters

HTML Entity Code Description

NUL null characterSOH start of headerSTX start of textETX end of textEOT end of transmissionENQ enquiryACK acknowledgeBEL bell (ring)

BS backspaceHT horizontal tabLF line feedVT vertical tabFF form feedCR carriage returnSO shift outSI shift inDLE data link escapeDC1 device control 1

DC2 device control 2DC3 device control 3DC4 device control 4

NAK negative acknowledgeSYN synchronize

ETB CAN cancelEM end of medium

SUB substituteESC escapeFS file separatorGS group separatorRS record separatorUS unit separator

DEL delete (rubout)

designed to control hardware devices.

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end transmissionblock


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ASCII Printable CharactersASCII Character HTML Entity Code Description

space! ! exclamation mark" " quotation mark# # number sign

$ $ dollar sign% % percent sign& & ampersand' ' apostrophe( ( left parenthesis) ) right parenthesis* * asterisk+ + plus sign, , comma- - hyphen

. . period/ / slash

00 digit 011 digit 122 digit 233 digit 344 digit 455 digit 566 digit 677 digit 788 digit 899 digit 9

: : colon; ; semicolon< < less-than= = equals-to> > greater-than? ? question mark@ @ at sign

A A uppercase AB B uppercase BC C uppercase CD D uppercase DE E uppercase EF F uppercase FG G uppercase GH H uppercase HI I uppercase I


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J J uppercase JK K uppercase KL L uppercase LM M uppercase MN N uppercase NO O uppercase OP P uppercase PQ Q uppercase QR R uppercase RS S uppercase ST T uppercase TU U uppercase UV V uppercase VW W uppercase WX X uppercase XY Y uppercase Y

Z Z uppercase Z[ [ left square bracket\ \ backslash] ] right square bracket^ ^ caret

_ _ underscore` ` grave accenta a lowercase ab b lowercase bc c lowercase c

d d lowercase de e lowercase ef f lowercase f g g lowercase gh h lowercase hi i lowercase i

j j lowercase jk k lowercase kl l lowercase lm m lowercase m

n n lowercase no o lowercase op p lowercase pq q lowercase qr r lowercase rs s lowercase st t lowercase tu u lowercase u


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v v lowercase vw w lowercase wx x lowercase xy y lowercase yz z lowercase z{ { left curly brace| | vertical bar} } right curly brace~ ~ tildeDEL delete (rubout)


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Math Symbols Supported by HTML Greek LCharacter Entity Number Entity Name Description Character

for all part &exists; exists

empty nabla isin notin ni prod sum minus lowast square root

proportional to infinity angle and or cap cup integral therefore simular to approximately equal almost equal not equal equivalent less or equal greater or equal subset of superset of not subset of subset or equal superset or equal circled plus cirled times perpendicular dot operator


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etters Supported by HTMLEntity Name Description

Alpha Beta Gamma

Delta Epsilon Zeta Eta Theta Iota Kappa Lambda Mu Nu

Xi Omicron Pi Rhoundefined Sigmaf Sigma Tau Upsilon Phi Chi

Psi Omega

alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron

Entity

Number


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pi rho sigmaf sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega

theta symbol upsilon symbol pi symbol


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Other Entities Supported by HTMLCharacter Entity Number Entity Name Description

capital ligature OE small ligature oe capital S with caron small S with caron

capital Y with diaeres f with hook

small tilde en space em space thin space

zero width non-joiner zero width joiner

left-to-right mark right-to-left mark

en dash em dash

left single quotation mark

right single quotation mark

single low-9 quotation mark left double quotation mark

right double quotation mark

double low-9 quotation mark dagger double dagger bullet horizontal ellipsis minutes

seconds single left angle quotation

single right angle quotation overline euro trademark left arrow

modifier letter circumflexaccent

per mille


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up arrow right arrow down arrow left right arrow carriage return arrow left ceiling right ceiling left floor right floor lozenge spade club heart diamond


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ISO 8859-1 SymbolsCharacter Entity Number Entity Name Description

non-breaking space inverted exclamation mark cent pound

currency yen broken vertical bar section spacing diaeresis copyright feminine ordinal indicator angle quotation mark (left) negation

soft hyphen

registered trademark spacing macron degree superscript 2 superscript 3 spacing acute micro paragraph middle dot spacing cedilla superscript 1 masculine ordinal indicator angle quotation mark (right) fraction 1/4 fraction 1/2 fraction 3/4 inverted question mark multiplication

division

-

plus-or-minus


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ISO 8859-1 CharactersCharacter Entity Number Entity Name Description

capital a, grave accent capital a, acute accent capital a, circumflex accent capital a, tilde

capital a, umlaut mark capital a, ring capital ae capital c, cedilla capital e, grave accent capital e, acute accent capital e, circumflex accent capital e, umlaut mark capital i, grave accent capital i, acute accent

capital i, circumflex accent capital i, umlaut mark capital eth, Icelandic capital n, tilde capital o, grave accent capital o, acute accent capital o, circumflex accent capital o, tilde capital o, umlaut mark capital o, slash capital u, grave accent capital u, acute accent capital u, circumflex accent capital u, umlaut mark capital y, acute accent capital THORN, Icelandic small sharp s, German small a, grave accent small a, acute accent

small a, circumflex accent small a, tilde small a, umlaut mark small a, ring small ae small c, cedilla small e, grave accent small e, acute accent small e, circumflex accent


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small e, umlaut mark small i, grave accent small i, acute accent small i, circumflex accent small i, umlaut mark small eth, Icelandic small n, tilde small o, grave accent small o, acute accent small o, circumflex accent small o, tilde small o, umlaut mark small o, slash small u, grave accent small u, acute accent small u, circumflex accent

small u, umlaut mark small y, acute accent small thorn, Icelandic small y, umlaut mark

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