Vertical Tabulation
Symbol Meaning
Vertical tabulation was originally used in computer terminals and text processing systems to move the cursor down a fixed number of lines, usually one line. It is also known as vertical tab or VT.
Speaking of modern computer systems and applications, the vertical tabulation symbol is not as popular as (Horizontal Tab), but it can still be found in text files or code. Usually it serves as a delimiter between data elements or text lines.
Like other control characters, this one has no visible representation and doesn't occupy a lot of space on screen or in typed text. However, there is a separate symbol in Control Pictures2400–243F representing the graphical image of Vertical Tabulation as the abbreviation VT — ␋ .
Escape sequence: \v.
It's one of the eight control symbols, the presence of which is required by POSIX:
The symbol “Vertical Tabulation” is included in the “C0 controls” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
VT, Line Tabulation, TAB.
| Unicode Name | Vertical Tabulation |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | C0 controls |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Keyboard shortcut | ^K |
| Escape sequences | \v |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 000B |
| Simple case change | 000B |
| scripts | Common |
| White_Space | + |
| Pattern_White_Space | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 0B | 11 | 11 | 00001011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 0B | 0 11 | 11 | 00000000 00001011 |
| UTF-16LE | 0B 00 | 11 0 | 2816 | 00001011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 0B | 0 0 0 11 | 11 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001011 |
| UTF-32LE | 0B 00 00 00 | 11 0 0 0 | 184549376 | 00001011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |