What are the characters below 32?

Control codes from the teletype era. A few remain in daily use — 9 is tab, 10 is line feed, 13 is carriage return — and the rest mostly appear as corruption in text files.

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The full 128-character ASCII table with decimal, hexadecimal, octal and binary values, including the control characters that still turn up in data from older systems.

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What are the characters below 32?: Control codes from the teletype era. A few remain in daily use — 9 is tab, 10 is line feed, 13 is carriage return — and the rest mostly appear as corruption in text files.

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