# 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

**Wikidata**: [Q2362269](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2362269)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_character)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/substitute-character


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#character-references)