Symbol For File Separator
Symbol For File Separator 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+241C
About this symbol
␜ is a printable picture of file separator, control code 28 in ASCII. ASCII had four separators, for files, groups, records and units, meant for splitting data into fields without the comma and quote problems that dog CSV files today.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR FILE SEPARATOR
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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