<control>

U+001B
BMP Unicode 1.1
Decimal &#27;
Hex &#x1B;

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+001B
Decimal
27
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Control (Cc)
Script
Common
Bidi class
BN Boundary Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — <control>.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
&#27;
HTML Hex
&#x1B;
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
1B
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 1B
UTF-32 Hex
0000001B
CSS Escape
\1B
JavaScript Escape
\u001B
Python Escape
\u001B
URL Encoded
%1B