Display
There are a number of techniques to display non-printing characters, which may be illustrated with the bell character in ASCII encoding:
- Code point: decimal 7, hexadecimal 0x07
- An abbreviation, often three capital letters: BEL
- A special character: Unicode U+2407 (␇), "symbol for bell" (note that this uses the abbreviation, specially formatted)
- Caret notation in ASCII, where code point 00xxxxx is represented as a caret followed by the capital letter at code point 10xxxxx: ^G
- An escape sequence, as in printf codes: \a
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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