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What are Escape characters?

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Some characters in the GSM 03.38 extension table can only be used at the cost of two characters. The GSM charset uses 7-bit alphabet encoding, but the escape characters require 14 bits to encode, thus taking up two characters. These symbols are: |, ^, {, }, €, [, ~, ] and \

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