CONTROL
U+0012
CONTROL
<control>
C0/C1 control code point defined for terminal/protocol control. Has no standalone visual glyph.
Category:
Control (Cc)
Block:
Basic Latin
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 1.1
Plane:
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
<control>
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+0012
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| Decimal Value |
18
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| General Category | Control (Cc) → | |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 1.1 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
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Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 1 byte |
12
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Code Unit |
0012
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| UTF-32 4 bytes |
00000012
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| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 12
LE: 12 00
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| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 00 00 12
LE: 12 00 00 00
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Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |

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|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |

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| HTML Named Entity |
None
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| CSS Escape |
\000012
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\u0012
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\u0012
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| JSON Escape |
\u0012
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| Python |
\u0012
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| PHP |
"\u{12}"
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| Java |
"\u0012"
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| C / C++ |
"\u0012"
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| Rust |
'\u{12}'
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| URL Percent-Encoded |
%12
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Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
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|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
BN — Boundary Neutral
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|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Non-Printable Character Notice
Code point U+0012 represents a CONTROL (General Category Cc). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.