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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

non-printing character

Many character sets have special codes for certain characters, such as characters indicating the start or end of a file, or the return key, etc. These characters are not printed out.

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charactercontrol charactertab (1)alt keyctrl keyreturnshift keyend of file (EOF) character
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