non-printable character

English

Noun

non-printable character (plural non-printable characters)

1. (computing) Synonym of control character
   • 2002, Davis Howard Chapman, Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ .Net in 21 Days, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:

     You also can include non-printable characters in the strings by including a backslash followed by the character that represents the non-printable character.