␟

ASCII Character ␟

Unit Separator

The separators (File, Group, Record, and Unit: FS, GS, RS and US) were made to structure data, usually on a tape, in order to simulate punched cards. End of medium (EM) warns that the tape (or other recording medium) is ending. While many systems use CR/LF and TAB for structuring data, it is possible to encounter the separator control characters in data that needs to be structured. The separator control characters are not overloaded; there is no general use of them except to separate data into structured groupings. Their numeric values are contiguous with the space character, which can be considered a member of the group, as a word separator.

ASCII Code for `␟`

These are the code points for unit Separator in various character sets

Character Sets	Decimal	Hex
ASCII	31	1F

Unicode for `␟`

The character for unit Separator is mapped in Unicode as U+001F

UTF-8 (binary)
Unicode	U+001F
Unicode Decimal	31
Unicode Escape	\u001f
UTF-8 (hex)	0xE2 0x90 0x9F
UTF-8 (binary)	111000101001000010011111
111000101001000010011111
UTF-16	0x001F
UTF-32	0x0000001F

HTML Entities for `␟`

The following HTML entities can be used to represent the unit Separator in HTML

HTML Number
HTML Hex

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u001F"
CSS Code	\001F
JavaScript	"\u001F"
Perl	\x{001F}
Python 2	u"\u001F"
Python 3	\u001F
Ruby	\u{001F}

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ASCII Character ␟

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ASCII Code for `␟`

Unicode for `␟`

HTML Entities for `␟`