What's the file/group/record/unit separator control characters and its usage?
Unicode defines several control characters from ASCII. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf I see many control characters are widely used but I really don't see where "information separators" are used. (U+001C~U+001F) What are them? What's the history of them? Where did they used for? Jonas Elfström Lammert Bies explains both their usage and the history behind. 28 – FS – File separator The file separator FS is an interesting control code, as it gives us insight in the way that computer technology was organized in the sixties. We are now used to random access media like RAM and magnetic