CONTROL PICTURES

Control Pictures
Control Pictures
Range	U+2400..U+243F; (64 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Symbol sets	Control code graphics
Assigned	39 code points
Unused	25 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	37 (+37)
3.0 (1999)	39 (+2)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

Control Pictures is a Unicode block containing characters for graphically representing the C0 control codes, and other control characters. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Pictures for Control Codes.^[3]

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Control Pictures^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+240x	␀	␁	␂	␃	␄	␅	␆	␇	␈	␉	␊	␋	␌	␍	␎	␏
U+241x	␐	␑	␒	␓	␔	␕	␖	␗	␘	␙	␚	␛	␜	␝	␞	␟
U+242x	␠	␡	␢	␣	␤	␥	␦
U+243x
1. ^ As of Unicode version 15.1 2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Control Pictures block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+2400..2424	37			(to be determined)
3.0	U+2425	1		N1138	LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
				N1203	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
				N1303 (html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
			L2/97-128	N1564	Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
			L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
			L2/98-005R	N1682	Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
			L2/98-320	N1898	ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
				N1897	Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
			L2/99-126		Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
	U+2426	1		N1045	Defect Report on 10646 Repoertoire (Add ISO 2047symbols), 1994-08-01
				N1203	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.3.2", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
			L2/98-004R	N1681	Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
				N1875	Defect Report on REVERSED QUESTION MARK in FPDAM 18, 1998-09-22
			L2/98-318	N1894	Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "6.7.3", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.

[final-4] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[1] "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[2] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[3] "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.

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Control Pictures
Range	U+2400..U+243F (64 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Symbol sets	Control code graphics
Assigned	39 code points
Unused	25 reserved code points
Unicode version history

1.0.0 (1991)	37 (+37)
3.0 (1999)	39 (+2)

Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: ^[1]^[2]