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2 unusual facts about C0 and C1 control codes


C0 and C1 control codes

The ESC code is used extensively to introduce commands to control printing and display devices, for instance in the ANSI escape codes, and PCL, the printer language from Hewlett-Packard printers and compatibles.

While the C1 control characters are used in conjunction with the ISO/IEC 8859 series of graphical character sets among others, and are integrated into Unicode, they are rarely used directly, except on specific platforms such as OpenVMS.



see also

ETX

End-of-text character, character code within the C0 and C1 control codes range