Group Separator

U+001D
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Symbol Meaning

The Group Separator symbol was used in computer terminals, printers, text processing systems, and telecommunication equipment. Its main purpose was to indicate the boundary between groups of data in a one stream.

It also served to separate groups of information in data streams. It allowed devices and programs to determine the boundaries between different groups of data and process them accordingly. This was particularly useful in processing structured data, which consisted of multiple groups or blocks of information.

When it comes to modern computer systems and applications, the U+001D symbol is rarely used there. It happens so because now other mechanisms, protocols (markup languages such as XML, JSON) and specialized data formats are used for the same purpose.

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 Group Separator as the abbreviation GS — .

The symbol “Group 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 Three, GS.

Unicode Name Group 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 001D
Simple case change 001D
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 1D 29 29 00011101
UTF-16BE 00 1D 0 29 29 00000000 00011101
UTF-16LE 1D 00 29 0 7424 00011101 00000000
UTF-32BE 00 00 00 1D 0 0 0 29 29 00000000 00000000 00000000 00011101
UTF-32LE 1D 00 00 00 29 0 0 0 486539264 00011101 00000000 00000000 00000000
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