U+001F "US" INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
U+001F "US" INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE is a control character from the C0 control code set, historically used in data transmission and storage to delimit or separate distinct units of information, specifically serving as a unit separator in a hierarchical system where it often follows other separators like the Record Separator or File Separator. Its function is to mark logical boundaries within data streams, ensuring that applications can parse structured text or binary files by recognizing this character as a formal division between individual data units. In modern usage, it is rarely employed directly in user-facing text, but it remains part of the ASCII and Unicode standards for compatibility with legacy systems and protocols.
General Properties
Code Point
U+001F
Unicode 1.0 Name
Information Separator One
Alias
INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE (control)
UNIT SEPARATOR (control)
US (abbreviation)
UNIT SEPARATOR (control)
US (abbreviation)
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding

HTML Hex Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding
0x1F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x001F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000001F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u001f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common