␈
ASCII Character ␈
BackspaceBackspace (BS) is a control character in ASCII. It is used to move the cursor or print head back one position, effectively deleting the previous character. BS is not intended to represent any printable character.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for ␈
These are the code points for backspace in various character setsUnicode for ␈
The character for backspace is mapped in Unicode as U+0008| Unicode | U+0008 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 8 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0008 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x90 0x88 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 111000101001000010001000 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 111000101001000010001000 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0008 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000008 | |
HTML Entities for ␈
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the backspace in HTML| HTML Number |  | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex |  |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0008" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \0008 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0008" | |
| Perl | \x{0008} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0008" | |
| Python 3 | \u0008 | |
| Ruby | \u{0008} |