Control Pictures

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Control Pictures is a Unicode block containing characters for graphically representing the C0 control codes, and other control characters. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Pictures for Control Codes.[3]

RangeU+2400..U+243F
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsControl code graphics
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Control Pictures
RangeU+2400..U+243F
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsControl code graphics
Assigned42 code points
Unused22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)37 (+37)
3.0 (1999)39 (+2)
16.0 (2024)42 (+3)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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Code points U+0000 NULL to U+0020 SPACE can be mapped onto their corresponding control picture by incrementing the code point by 0x2400. For example, the corresponding control picture for U+000A LINE FEED is 0x000A + 0x2400 = 0x240A (␊).

Block

Control Pictures[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+240x
U+241x
U+242x
U+243x  
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Control Pictures block:

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