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The Enquiry symbol was designed for teletype and other communication systems. It was used to request a response from a remote device. As for communication protocols, the Enquiry symbol is applied to initiate data exchange by requesting confirmation to receive or deliver data.
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The use of the U+0005 symbol has become less popular in modern computer systems and applications, since ts functions are often replaced by other communication methods and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and others.
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Like other control characters, this symbol has no visual representation and doesn't occupy much space on screen or in typed text. There is a separate symbol in [BLOCK:control-pictures]. It represents a graphic image of the Enquiry symbol as the ENQ (Enquiry) abbreviation - [U:2405]. |