A control character in a document that represents movement to the next tab stop. In the ASCII character set, a horizontal tab is ASCII 9, and a vertical tab is ASCII 11. See ASCII chart.

In ASCII, each character (letter, number, symbol or control character) is represented by a binary value. Extended ASCII is a version that supports representation of 256 different characters.

In communications, a control character that is transmitted to request a response from the receiving station. In ASCII code, the enquiry ("enq") character is hex 05; in EBCDIC, it is 2D.

32 control codes (mainly to do with printing ... all the way up to ‘Z’, which is the 26th letter. In ASCII, each character has its own assigned number. For example: ...