U+213B Facsimile Sign
U+213B was added in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system in the form of audio-frequency tones. The receiving fax machine interprets the tones and reconstructs the image, printing a paper copy. Early systems used direct conversions of image darkness to audio tone in a continuous or analog manner. Since the 1980s, most machines transmit an audio-encoded digital representation of the page, using data compression to more quickly transmit areas that are all-white or all-black.
Initially a niche product, fax machines became ubiquitous in offices in the 1980s and 1990s. They have gradually been rendered obsolete by Internet-based technologies such as email and the World Wide Web, but are still used in some medical administration and law enforcement settings.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8507 |
UTF-8 | E2 84 BB |
UTF-16 | 21 3B |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 3B |
URL-Quoted | %E2%84%BB |
HTML hex reference | ℻ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â„» |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
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FACSIMILE SIGN | |
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