Technical information

Symbol
NameInformation separator four
Unicode numberU+001C
CategoryASCII Table1. ASCII control characters
DescriptionThe Unicode character , or U+001C, is known as the "Information Separator Four". It falls under the "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" block and the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. It is an invisible control character that doesn't have a graphical representation. Its initial purpose in early computer systems was to serve as a marker indicating the separation of pieces of information. However, in modern systems and interfaces, it is rarely used and generally has no effect.

Encoding

HTML Entity
HTML Entity (hex)
URL Escape Code%1C
UTF-8 (hex)0x1C
UTF-8 (binary)00011100
UTF-160x001C
UTF-320x0000001C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u001C"
CSS Code\001C
JavaScript"\u001C"
Perl\x{001C}
Python 2u"\u001C"
Python 3\u001C
Ruby\u{001C}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this  in sentence and in bold like this  and in italic like this .

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input

input-group
select
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button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#28;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\001C";
}

The symbol in different fonts


-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

References