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Additional
control character
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Control character
In
computing
and
telecommunication
, a
control
character
or
non-printing character
is a
code point
(a
number
) in a
character set
, that does not represent a written symbol. They are used as
in-band signaling
to cause effects other than the addition of a symbol to the text. All other characters are mainly
printing
,
printable
, or
graphic characters
, except perhaps for the "space" character (see
ASCII printable characters
).
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Control (fictional character)
Control
is a
fictional character
created by
John le Carré
. Control is an
intelligence officer
who acts as the head of "the Circus", the British overseas
intelligence agency
. He is a character in the
novels
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
,
The Looking Glass War
, and
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
, and is referred to in several others, usually by association with le Carré's recurring protagonist
George Smiley
, who serves as Control's right-hand man.
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