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U+001C · INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR

Information Separator Four

  • CodepointU+001C
  • NameINFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
  • Decimal28
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCc — Control
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classB — Paragraph Separator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+001C is INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR, a control character in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a control code inherited from ASCII. Unicode gives control codes no formal name, only the aliases INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR, FILE SEPARATOR, FS.

Its visible stand-in is U+241C ␜ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-81C1 byte
UTF-16001C1 code unit
UTF-320000001C4 bytes
CSS\1Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u001C
JSON\u001C
Python\u001C
Python\N{INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR}by name
Java / C#\u001C
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1C}
Go\u001C
Ruby\u001C
URL-encoded%1Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0016SYNSynchronous Idle U+0017ETBEnd of Transmission Block U+0018CANCancel U+0019EOMEnd of Medium U+001ASUBSubstitute U+001BESCEscape U+001DGSInformation Separator Three U+001ERSInformation Separator Two U+001FUSInformation Separator One U+0020SPSpace U+0021!Exclamation Mark U+0022"Quotation Mark