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The delete character is strictly a control character, not a graphic character. This is true not only in ISO 646, but also in all related standards including Unicode. However, many other character sets deviate from ISO 646, and as a result a graphic character might occupy the position originally
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Letter, Mark, Number, Punctuation, Symbol or Zs=space. Other code points (General categories Control, Zl=line separator, Zp=paragraph separator) are Format, Control, Private Use, Surrogate, Noncharacter or Reserved (unassigned).
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This does not mean the delete character is absent; it just means 0x7F is overloaded, and outputting it will either print the graphical character or perform a deletion, depending on the routine used. For example in most
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a graphic character and a control character in ISO 646. It can be considered as a character with a visible form or, in contexts such as
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display, each spacing character occupies one rectangular character box of equal sizes. Or maybe two adjacent ones, for non-alphabetic
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this implies moving of the carriage after typing of a character. In the context of
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The Computer Graphics Metafile: Butterworth Series in Computer Graphics Standards
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marks. Although non-spacing graphic characters are uncommon in traditional
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In ISO 646, graphic characters are contained in rows 2 through 7 of the
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Note that not all modifiers are non-spacing – there exists
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https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch02.pdf#G25564
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Encoded character that is associated with one or more glyphs
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Modifier character
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