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In CP/M, 86-DOS, MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR-DOS, and their various derivatives, the SUB character was also used to indicate the end of a character stream, [citation needed] and thereby used to terminate user input in an interactive command line window (and as such, often used to finish console input redirection, e.g. as instigated by the command COPY ...
In 1973, ECMA-35 and ISO 2022 [18] attempted to define a method so an 8-bit "extended ASCII" code could be converted to a corresponding 7-bit code, and vice versa. [19] In a 7-bit environment, the Shift Out would change the meaning of the 96 bytes 0x20 through 0x7F [a] [21] (i.e. all but the C0 control codes), to be the characters that an 8-bit environment would print if it used the same code ...
Many computer languages require that a hexadecimal number be marked with a prefix or suffix (or both) to identify it as a number. Sometimes the prefix or suffix is used as part of the word. The C programming language uses the "0x" prefix to indicate a hexadecimal number, but the "0x" is usually ignored when people read such values as words.
The UTF-8 representation of the BOM is the (hexadecimal) byte sequence EF BB BF. The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8 , [ 4 ] but does not require or recommend its use. [ 5 ] UTF-8 always has the same byte order, [ 6 ] so its only use in UTF-8 is to signal at the start that the text stream is encoded in UTF-8, or that it was converted ...
The delete control character (also called DEL or rubout) is the last character in the ASCII repertoire, with the code 127. [1] It is supposed to do nothing and was designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape .
The ability to represent a null character does not always mean the resulting string will be correctly interpreted, as many programs will consider the null to be the end of the string. Thus the ability to type it (in case of unchecked user input) creates a vulnerability known as null byte injection and can lead to security exploits. [10]
Operating System Command: Starts a control string for the operating system to use, terminated by ST. [5]: 8.3.89 ESC X: 0x98: SOS: Start of String Takes an argument of a string of text, terminated by ST. [5]: 5.6 The uses for these string control sequences are defined by the application [5]: 8.3.2, 8.3.128 or privacy discipline.
The backslash (\) escape character typically provides two ways to include double-quotes inside a string literal, either by modifying the meaning of the double-quote character embedded in the string (\" becomes "), or by modifying the meaning of a sequence of characters including the hexadecimal value of a double-quote character (\x22 becomes ").