File Separator

U+001C
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Symbol Meaning

File Separator was used in computer terminals, printers, text processing systems, and telecommunication equipment. Its main purpose was to indicate the boundary between files or data parts within one stream, especially when they were transmitted or saved on a single physical device. It also allowed programs to determine the boundaries between different files or data blocks and process them accordingly.

When it comes to modern computer systems and applications, the U+001C symbol is rarely used there, since other mechanisms and protocols have been employed, such as file systems and specialized data formats. They can process files and determine data boundaries too.

Like many other control symbols, 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 the File Separator as the abbreviation FS — .

The symbol “File Separator” is included in the “C0 controls” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Synonyms

Information Separator Four, FS.

Unicode Name File Separator
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 ^\
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 001C
Simple case change 001C
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 1C 28 28 00011100
UTF-16BE 00 1C 0 28 28 00000000 00011100
UTF-16LE 1C 00 28 0 7168 00011100 00000000
UTF-32BE 00 00 00 1C 0 0 0 28 28 00000000 00000000 00000000 00011100
UTF-32LE 1C 00 00 00 28 0 0 0 469762048 00011100 00000000 00000000 00000000
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