Graphic character

Encoded character that is associated with one or more glyphs A graphic character, also known as a printing character or a printable character, is a grapheme intended to be rendered in a form that can be read by a human. In other words, it is any encoded character that is associated with one or more glyphs. (It is thus distinct from a control character, one that is acted upon and not displayed.) ISO/IEC 646 In ASCII (specified in ISO/IEC 646), graphic characters are contained in rows 2 through 7 of the code table. However, two of the characters in these rows, namely the space character, SP, at row 2 column 0 and the delete character, DEL (also called the rubout character), at row 7 column 15 require special mention. The space is considered to be both a graphic character and a control character in ISO 646. It can be considered as a character with a visible form or, in contexts such as teleprinters, a control character that advances the print head without printing a character. The delete character is strictly a control character, not a graphic character. This is true not only in ISO 646 but also in all related[clarification needed] standards including Unicode. However, many other char