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In telecommunication, the term cancel character has the following meanings: BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunication refers to communication over long distances. ...


1. A precision control character (In Unicode, the hexadecimal code number is 0x18, abbr is CAN) used to indicate that the data with which it is associated are in error or are to be disregarded. Accuracy, in science, engineering, industry and statistics, is the degree of conformity of a measured/calculated quantity to its actual (true) value. ... In computing, a control character or non-printing character, is a code point (a number) in a character set that does not, in itself, represent a written symbol. ... Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ... In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f. ... DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) was established in 2002 by Bono (Paul Hewson) of the Rock band U2, and Bobby Shriver, along with activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Campaign, as an organisaton focused on Justice, not charity. ... The word error has different meanings in different domains. ...


2. An accuracy control character (In Unicode, the hexadecimal code number is 0x94, abbr is CCH) used to indicate that the data with which it is associated are in error, are to be disregarded, or cannot be represented on a particular device. Accuracy, in science, engineering, industry and statistics, is the degree of conformity of a measured/calculated quantity to its actual (true) value. ... In computing, a control character or non-printing character, is a code point (a number) in a character set that does not, in itself, represent a written symbol. ... Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ... In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f. ... DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) was established in 2002 by Bono (Paul Hewson) of the Rock band U2, and Bobby Shriver, along with activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Campaign, as an organisaton focused on Justice, not charity. ... The word error has different meanings in different domains. ...


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RFC 1345 (rfc1345) - Character Mnemonics and Character Sets (10214 words)
The ISO definition of the term "coded character set" is as follows: "A set of unambiguous rules that establishes a character set and the one-to-one relationship between the characters of the set and their coded representation." and this definition may be subject to different interpretations.
There may be up to two characters used in the intro character sequence, and the decimal value for two-character intro sequences are then the first character value multiplied with 256 to the power of the number of octets used in the character set, plus the second character value.
Characters in the mail transport character set are normally just represented with their encoding, but may also be represented by the intro character sequence and the mnemonic encoding.
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