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Control Characters and Keyboard Equivalents

Abbrev Description Dec Hex Oct Keyboard
NUL Null 0 00 000 control + @
SOH Start of Heading 1 01 001 control + a
STX Start of Text 2 02 002 control + b
ETX End of Text 3 03 003 control + c
EOT End of Transmission 4 04 004 control + d
ENQ Enquiry 5 05 005 control + e
ACK Acknowledgment 6 06 006 control + f
BEL Bell 7 07 007 control + g
BS Backspace 8 08 010 control + h
HT Horizontal Tab 9 09 011 control + i
LF Line Feed 10 0a 012 control + j
VT Vertical Tab 11 0b 013 control + k
FF Form Feed 12 0c 014 control + l
CR Carriage Return 13 0d 015 control + m
SO Shift Out 14 0e 016 control + n
SI Shift In 15 0f 017 control + o
DLE Data Link Escape 16 10 020 control + p
DC1 XON / Device Control 1 17 11 021 control + q
DC2 Device Control 2 18 12 022 control + r
DC3 XOFF / Device Control 3 19 13 023 control + s
DC4 Device Control 4 20 14 024 control + t
NAK Negative Acknowledgement 21 15 025 control + u
SYN Synchronous Idle 22 16 026 control + v
ETB End of Transmit Block 23 17 027 control + w
CAN Cancel 24 18 030 control + x
EM End of Medium 25 19 031 control + y
SUB Substitute 26 1a 032 control + z
ESC Escape 27 1b 033 control + [
FS File Separator 28 1c 034 control + \
GS Group Separator 29 1d 035 control + ]
RS Record Separator 30 1e 036 control + ^
US Unit Separator 31 1f 037 control + _
DEL Delete 127 7f 177 control + ?