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End-of-Transmission-Block character
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End-of-Transmission-Block (ETB) is a communications control character used to indicate the end of a block of data for communications purposes. ETB is used for segmenting data into blocks when the block structure is not necessarily related to the processing function.
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In ASCII, ETB is code point 23 (0x17, or ^W in caret notation) in the C0 control code set. In EBCDIC, ETB is code point 0x26.
Unicode also includes a character for the visual representation of the character: U+2417 ␗ SYMBOL FOR END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK.
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References
- Nichols A., Nichols et al.: Data Communications for Microcomputers (1982)
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