Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> > But `M-x describe-char RET' for `^L' in scratch buffer shows
> > the following:
> >
> > to input: type "C-x 8 RET c" or "C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)"
> >
> > And the above-mentioned two type input sequences will
> > generated different characters:
> >
> > "C-x 8 RET c" --->  `^F'
> > "C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)" --->  `^L'
>
> I get ^L for both of them

Why ^ is used to represent Ctrl?

Hongyi