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Control Pictures

Field	Value
blockname	Control Pictures
rangestart	2400
rangeend	243F
script1	Common
symbols	Control code graphics
1_0_0	37
3_0	2
16_0	3
note

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.

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

U+2400 U+2410 U+2420

History

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

Version	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+2400..2424	37
3.0	U+2425	1		N1138
	[N1203](https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1203.txt)
	[doc](https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1303.doc))
	N1564
	[N1603](https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1603.doc)
	N1682
	[N1898](https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1898_sc02n3192_pdam22_kbdsym.pdf)
	[N1897](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1897_sc2n3191_dofc_pdam22_ksymbols.doc)
	[html](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.htm), [doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903w97.doc))
U+2426	1		N1045
	[N1203](https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1203.txt)
	N1681
	[N1875](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1875.pdf)
	[N1894](https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1894_02n3188_fpdam%2018.pdf)
	[html](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.htm), [doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903w97.doc))
16.0	U+2427..2429	3	[no_attach](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235-terminals-supplement-noattach.pdf), [sources](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235-terminals-supplement-sources.pdf), [mappings_zip](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235-terminals-supplement-mappings.zip))
[no_attach](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement-noattach.pdf))

References

"Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
"Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard.
"3.8: Block-by-Block Charts". [[Unicode Consortium]].
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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