Symbol For Substitute
Symbol For Substitute has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ␚
- Unicode
- U+241A
About this symbol
␚ is a printable picture of substitute, control code 26 in ASCII, meant to replace a character that was garbled in transmission. CP/M and MS-DOS used it, typed as Ctrl+Z, to mark the end of a text file, a habit Windows inherited.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR SUBSTITUTE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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