␆
ASCII Character ␆
AcknowledgeThe Acknowledge character (␆) is a control character in the ASCII and Unicode character sets with the value of 6. It is often abbreviated as ACK. The Acknowledge character was originally used in telecommunications to acknowledge the receipt of a message or a packet of data. When a device sent data to another device, the receiving device would send back an ACK character to let the sender know that the data was received successfully.
Here are some key details:- In ASCII and Unicode, the ACK character is defined as U+0006.
- In many communication protocols, including TCP/IP, the concept of ACK is used for reliable delivery of data. Though not exactly the same character, the term "ACK" is used to denote acknowledgment packets sent back by the receiver to the sender.
- Like other ASCII control characters, ACK does not represent a printable glyph and is typically non-visible in text content.
- In the context of modern computing and telecommunications, ACK (or similar mechanisms) remains a fundamental concept for ensuring reliable data transmission.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for ␆
These are the code points for acknowledge in various character setsUnicode for ␆
The character for acknowledge is mapped in Unicode as U+0006| Unicode | U+0006 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 6 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0006 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x90 0x86 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 111000101001000010000110 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 111000101001000010000110 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0006 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000006 | |
HTML Entities for ␆
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the acknowledge in HTML| HTML Number |  | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex |  |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0006" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \0006 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0006" | |
| Perl | \x{0006} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0006" | |
| Python 3 | \u0006 | |
| Ruby | \u{0006} |