What is this character?

nimbis · January 17, 2026, 1:44pm

I’ve been scouring wikipedia and formatting docs but am admitting defeat - what is the character that’s used here?

I think it’s \x7f, which is usually the delete sequence?

burps · January 17, 2026, 2:00pm

it is the graphical representation of the DEL control character indeed.

nimbis · January 17, 2026, 2:07pm

Ah you’re a legend! This article looks amazing, I was having 0 luck

nimbis · January 19, 2026, 4:13pm

Thanks for the tip! I can now successfully print the DEL character in a linux terminal: