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What is a vertical tab?

Asked 2010-08-01T02:41:36.177
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What was the original historical use of the vertical tab character (\v in the C language, ASCII 11)?

Did it ever have a key on a keyboard? How did someone generate it?

Is there any language or system still in use today where the vertical tab character does something interesting and useful?

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I believe it's still being used, not sure exactly. There might be even a key combination of it.

As English is written Left to Right, Arabic Right to Left, there are languages in world that are also written top to bottom. In that case a vertical tab might be useful same as the horizontal tab is used for English text.

I tried searching, but couldn't find anything useful yet.

answered 2013-05-20T08:19:54.600

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