What is the character?

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What's the meaning of this char?

I know this is an old post, but according to the website in the above comment, is invalid, which is entirely incorrect. — akousmata, Mar 06 '14 at 23:30
@akousmata: are you saying that the linked website is not correct? — Revious, Mar 06 '14 at 23:32
Yes, from the website: ` | | %a = invalid` as you can see from the correct answer, the HTML encoding for is a Line Feed, not invalid as the site claims, unless I'm misunderstanding something about the sites information. — akousmata, Mar 06 '14 at 23:44
The `` notation is a XML encoding for special characters. See also this article [on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references). — Flimtix, Oct 27 '21 at 08:25

score 150 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '11 at 16:10

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That would be an HTML Encoded Line Feed character (using the hexadecimal value).

The decimal value would be 


answered Apr 04 '11 at 16:10

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score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 11 '17 at 17:58

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It is the equivalent to \n -> LF (Line Feed).

Sometimes it is used in HTML and JavaScript. Otherwise in .NET environments, use Environment.NewLine.

edited Sep 11 '17 at 17:58

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answered Feb 20 '14 at 13:44

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score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 11 '17 at 16:52

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It's the ASCII/UTF code for LF (0A) - Unix-based systems are using it as the newline character, while Windows uses the CR-LF PAIR (OD0A).

edited Sep 11 '17 at 16:52

Peter Mortensen

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answered Apr 04 '11 at 16:13

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 04 '11 at 16:14

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It's a linefeed character. How you use it would be up to you.

answered Apr 04 '11 at 16:14

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score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 26 '21 at 03:56

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 is the HTML representation in hex of a line feed character. It represents a new line on Unix and Unix-like (for example) operating systems.

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answered Jan 15 '15 at 08:39

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Alireza Fattahi · Answer 6 · 2017-11-14T05:00:38.087

This is the ASCII format.

Please consider that:

Some data (like URLs) can be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since data often contain characters outside the ASCII set, so it has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.

To find it yourself, you can visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII, there you can find big tables of characters. The one you are looking is in Control Characters table.

Digging to table you can find

Oct Dec Hex Name 012 10 0A Line Feed

In the html file you can use Dec and Hex representation of charters

The Dec is represented with 


The Hex is represented with &#x0A (or you can omit the leading zero &#xA)

There is a good converter at https://r12a.github.io/apps/conversion/ .

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 25 '21 at 12:17

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This is an Ascii Key Code for Line Feed (Lf).

You can find a list of the descriptions, together with the decimal and Hex values here enter link description here

answered Oct 25 '21 at 12:17

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 23 '21 at 10:02

HTML hex character entity for U+000A Line Feed

This is a representation of Unicode Character 'LINE FEED (LF)' (U+000A)


 is the HTML character entity's way of saying: give me the Unicode character at hexadecimal codepoint 0xA

And because hex 0xA is the same as decimal 10, here's another way of getting the same character: 


What is the character?

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HTML hex character entity for U+000A Line Feed

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