ISO 6429 Control Characters (C0 and C1)
The control characters U+0000–U+001F and U+007F come from ASCII. Additionally, U+0080–U+009F were used in conjunction with ISO 8859 character sets (among others). They are specified in ISO 6429 and often referred to as C0 and C1 control codes respectively.
Most of these characters play no explicit role in Unicode text handling. The characters U+0000
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