Unicode: Symbols for ASCII Control Characters โ€

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Unicode has visible glyphs to represent ASCII Control Characters. Here's the complete list.

โ€ โ โ‚ โƒ โ„ โ… โ† โ‡ โˆ โ‰ โŠ โ‹ โŒ โ โŽ โ โ โ‘ โ’ โ“ โ” โ• โ– โ— โ˜ โ™ โš โ› โœ โ โž โŸ โก

Use of Control Characters

ASCII Control characters are heavily used in unix terminal. See: Linux: Terminal Control Sequence Keys

Stack Overflow offline screenshot
Stack Overflow Offline Page (2011-08-06T13:49:05-07:00) showing ASCII control characters, by caret notation. Note that the ^M represents the ASCII 13, carriage return. Any ^ followed by a letter represents a ASCII non-printable char. The ^@ is ASCII 0, the Null character.

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