U+0018 "CAN" CANCEL Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

CAN

U+0018 "CAN" CANCEL is a control character from the C0 control code set, originally defined in ASCII and later adopted into Unicode. It is intended to indicate that the preceding data or message should be disregarded or considered invalid, functioning as a cancel signal in data transmission and storage contexts. Historically used in telecommunication and early computer systems, this character is non-printable and serves only as an instruction for processing equipment.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0018
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cancel
Alias
CAN (abbreviation)
CANCEL (control)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding

HTML Hex Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding
0x18
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0018
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000018
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0018