End of Transmission

U+0004
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Symbol Meaning

The End of Transmission character was designed for use in telegraph and other communication systems. It indicated the end of data or message delivery between devices.

The use of the U+0004 character has become less popular in modern computer systems and applications. Its functions are often replaced by other methods of encoding and structuring data, such as data transmission protocols and checksums.

Like other control characters, this symbol has no visual representation and does not occupy a lot of 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 EOT (End of Transmission) abbreviation — .

The symbol “End of Transmission” is included in the “C0 controls” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Synonyms

EOT.

Unicode Name End of Transmission
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock C0 controls
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Keyboard shortcut ^D
Version 1.1
Block Basic Latin
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 0004
Simple case change 0004
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 04 4 4 00000100
UTF-16BE 00 04 0 4 4 00000000 00000100
UTF-16LE 04 00 4 0 1024 00000100 00000000
UTF-32BE 00 00 00 04 0 0 0 4 4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100
UTF-32LE 04 00 00 00 4 0 0 0 67108864 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000
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