Substitute character

Substitute character - control character used in the place of a character that is recognized to be invalid or erroneous, or that cannot be represented on a given device; 0x1A in ASCII, U+001A in Unicode. Article “Substitute character” in English Wikipedia has 24.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Substitute character”, its content was written by 77 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 150 times in English Wikipedia and cited 248 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40994 in April 2013
• Global: #131713 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #39489 in February 2010
• Global: #69649 in February 2010

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 替代字符		26.743
2	English (en) Substitute character		24.8911
3	Korean (ko) 치환 문자		10.1781
4	Japanese (ja) 置換文字		9.4352
5	German (de) Substitutionszeichen		2.1307
6	Dutch (nl) Plaatsvervangend karakter		1.2942

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Substitute character" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substitute character		1 345 742
2	German (de) Substitutionszeichen		25 153
3	Japanese (ja) 置換文字		14 072
4	Chinese (zh) 替代字符		12 140
5	Dutch (nl) Plaatsvervangend karakter		3 921
6	Korean (ko) 치환 문자		517

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Substitute character" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substitute character		2 460
2	Chinese (zh) 替代字符		148
3	Japanese (ja) 置換文字		90
4	German (de) Substitutionszeichen		48
5	Korean (ko) 치환 문자		16
6	Dutch (nl) Plaatsvervangend karakter		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Substitute character" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Substitute character		77
2	German (de) Substitutionszeichen		10
3	Dutch (nl) Plaatsvervangend karakter		6
4	Japanese (ja) 置換文字		5
5	Chinese (zh) 替代字符		5
6	Korean (ko) 치환 문자		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Substitute character" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Substitutionszeichen		0
2	English (en) Substitute character		0
3	Japanese (ja) 置換文字		0
4	Korean (ko) 치환 문자		0
5	Dutch (nl) Plaatsvervangend karakter		0
6	Chinese (zh) 替代字符		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Substitute character" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Substitute character		150
2	German (de) Substitutionszeichen		43
3	Korean (ko) 치환 문자		27
4	Japanese (ja) 置換文字		13
5	Chinese (zh) 替代字符		12
6	Dutch (nl) Plaatsvervangend karakter		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Substitutionszeichen
en	English Substitute character
ja	Japanese 置換文字
ko	Korean 치환 문자
nl	Dutch Plaatsvervangend karakter
zh	Chinese 替代字符

Best Rank

English: #39489 02.2010

Global: #69649 02.2010

Best Rank

English: #40994 04.2013

Global: #131713 03.2011

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