carriage return
control character, or mechanism, used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text
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carriage return
Summary
carriage return is a mechanism[1]. It draws 2,512 Wikipedia views per month (mechanism category, ranking #2 of 16).[2]
Key Facts
- carriage return's instance of is recorded as mechanism[3].
- carriage return's instance of is recorded as whitespace[4].
- carriage return's instance of is recorded as Unicode character[5].
- carriage return's instance of is recorded as vertical space character as per PCRE[6].
- typewriter carriage is named after carriage return[7].
- carriage return is a type of control character[8].
- carriage return is part of C0 and C1 control codes[9].
- carriage return's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/newline[10].
- carriage return's Unicode code point is recorded as 000D[11].
- carriage return's HTML entity is recorded as [12].
- carriage return's HTML entity is recorded as [13].
- carriage return's Unicode block is recorded as Basic Latin[14].
Why It Matters
carriage return draws 2,512 Wikipedia views per month (mechanism category, ranking #2 of 16).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]