Originally, carriage return was the term for the key, lever, or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left side of the paper after a line of text had been typed, and would often move it down a line as well. The symbol ↵ derives from this, as it or variants thereof were often found on the carriage return key (the analog analogue of the modern Enter key). This Smith Premier typewriter, purchased around the end of the 19th century, was found abandoned in the Bodie ghost town. ... Originally, carriage return was the term for the key, lever, or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left side of the paper after a line of text had been typed, and would often move it...

In computing, the carriage return (CR) is one of the control characters in ASCII code, unicode or EBCDIC that commands a printer or other sort of display to move the position of the cursor to the first position on the same line. It is mostly used along with line feed, a move to the next line, while carriage return precedes line feed to indicate a new line. The term derives from the above usage, as early printers often closely resembled typewriters; this control character would activate a physical carriage-return mechanism. Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a computer was a person who computes. ... 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. ... There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is an 8-bit character encoding (codepage) used on IBM mainframe operating systems, like z/OS, s/390, AS/400 and i5/OS. It is also employed on various non-IBM platforms such as Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD and HP MPE/iX. It... A computer printer is a computer peripheral device that produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it. ... Cursor is a term that frequently refers to a feature of a computer user interfaces. ... In computing, line feed (LF) is a control character indicating that one line should be fed out. ... In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters indicating the end of a line. ...

In ASCII and unicode, it is defined as 13 in decimal and 0D in hexadecimal. There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... Decimal, or less commonly, denary, usually refers to the base 10 numeral system. ... 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. ...

Some standards (for example HTML) treat carriage return and its relative line feed as whitespace. In computing, line feed (LF) is a control character indicating that one line should be fed out. ...

In the C programming language and many other languages influenced by it, r denotes this character. The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the UNIX operating...

See also

• Line feed
• CRLF