Timeline for What are these rectangular characters and where is this notation defined
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| Jan 5, 2019 at 18:50 | comment | added | Fiddy Bux | I have this in my terminal when '''I run nmblookup -M -- -''', how do I get rid? What fonts do I need to install? | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | SPRBRN | In ASCII those characters are called control characters. How they are displayed depends on the program displaying them. Look at Emacs: gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Text-Display.html: the ‘control-A’ character, U+0001, is displayed as ‘^A’. What you see in Bash may be something entirely different. You could cat the contents of a compiled program file, and then 0C may be part of code that has nothing to do with a form feed. When you display that in bash, it may act like a form feed onscreen, but that may not be what is intended. | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 14:00 | comment | added | Naitree | Thanks for your analysis. So it does represent hex value of character. Do you know what this notation is called? (or where is it defined?) | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 13:39 | history | answered | SPRBRN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |