Symbol For Escape
Symbol For Escape 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+241B
About this symbol
␛ is a printable picture of the invisible escape control code, number 27 in ASCII. The escape code is credited to the computer scientist Bob Bemer, who proposed it in 1960 as a way for programs to switch a device into a different mode.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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