End of Text
Symbol Meaning
The End of Text symbol was originally designed for use in teletype and other communication systems. It indicated the end of the text part of a message following the header, which began with the Start of Heading symbol . Besides, it also noted the text content, which began with the Start of Text symbol .
The use of the U+0003 symbol has become less popular in modern computer systems and applications. Its functions are often replaced by other methods of encoding and structuring data.
Like other control characters, this symbol has no visual representation and does not occupy much space on screen or in typed text. There is a separate symbol in Control Pictures2400–243F representing the graphical depiction of the End of Text symbol. It shows as the ETX (End of Text) abbreviation — .
The symbol “End of Text” is included in the “C0 controls” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
ETX.
| Unicode Name | End of Text |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | C0 controls |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Keyboard shortcut | ^C |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 0003 |
| Simple case change | 0003 |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 03 | 3 | 3 | 00000011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 03 | 0 3 | 3 | 00000000 00000011 |
| UTF-16LE | 03 00 | 3 0 | 768 | 00000011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 03 | 0 0 0 3 | 3 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011 |
| UTF-32LE | 03 00 00 00 | 3 0 0 0 | 50331648 | 00000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |