
ISO 2047 (Information processing – Graphical representations for the control characters of the 7-bit coded character set) is a standard for graphical representation of the
control characters for debugging purposes, such as may be found in the character generator of a computer terminal; it also establishes a two-letter abbreviation of each control character.
The graphics and two-letter codes are essentially unchanged from the 1968 European standard
ECMA-17
[ (withdrawn)] and the 1973 American standard ANSI X3.32-1973. It became an ISO standard in 1975.
[ It is also standardized as GB/T 3911-1983 in China, as KS X 1010 in Korea (formerly KS C 5713), and was enacted in Japan as "graphical representation of information exchange capabilities for character" JIS X 0209:1976 (former JIS C 6227) (abolished January 20, 2010).
While the ISO/IEC 646 three-letter abbreviations (such as "ESC"), or ]caret notation
Caret notation is a notation for control characters in ASCII. The notation assigns to control-code 1, sequentially through the alphabet to assigned to control-code 26 (0x1A). For the control-codes outside of the range 1–26, the ...
(such as "^[") are still in use, the graphical symbols of ISO 2047 are considered outdated and rare.[Agim Çami, ]
Character table
Notes
References
External links
ECMA-17
(Ecma International equivalent)
BN-76/3101-05
(Polish equivalent)
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