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What is a vertical tab?

Vertical tab was used to speed up printer vertical movement. Some printers used special tab belts with various tab spots. This helped align content on forms. VT to header space, fill in header, VT to body area, fill in lines, VT to form footer. Generally it was coded in the program as a character constant. … Read more

get char value in java

char is actually a numeric type containing the unicode value (UTF-16, to be exact – you need two chars to represent characters outside the BMP) of the character. You can do everything with it that you can do with an int. Character.getNumericValue() tries to interpret the character as a digit.