substitute character

control character used in the place of a character that is recognized to be invalid or erroneous, or that cannot be represented on a given device; 0x1A in ASCII, U+001A in Unicode
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substitute character

Summary

substitute character is an Unicode control character[1]. It draws 62 Wikipedia views per month (unicode_control_character category, ranking #2 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • substitute character's instance of is recorded as Unicode control character[3].
  • substitute character's instance of is recorded as Unicode character[4].
  • substitute character's part of is recorded as C0 and C1 control codes[5].
  • substitute character's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0960yf[6].
  • substitute character's different from is recorded as �[7].
  • substitute character's Unicode code point is recorded as 001A[8].
  • substitute character's HTML entity is recorded as [9].
  • substitute character's HTML entity is recorded as [10].
  • substitute character's GlyphWiki ID is recorded as u001a[11].
  • substitute character's Unicode block is recorded as Basic Latin[12].
  • substitute character's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780459206[13].

Why It Matters

substitute character draws 62 Wikipedia views per month (unicode_control_character category, ranking #2 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . html.spec.whatwg.org. html.spec.whatwg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . html.spec.whatwg.org. html.spec.whatwg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). substitute character. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/substitute-character
MLA “substitute character.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/substitute-character.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_substitute-character_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{substitute character}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/substitute-character}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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