Symbol For Device Control One
Symbol For Device Control One 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+2411
About this symbol
␑ is a printable picture of device control one, control code 17 in ASCII. It became XON, the signal to resume sending, and its partner device control three, ␓, became XOFF, the signal to pause, which is why Ctrl+S can freeze a terminal and Ctrl+Q unfreeze it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR DEVICE CONTROL ONE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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