What is the contact ( I ) in the encoder pinout?

Question

Electronics

I'm trying to connect a re-2-500 6pins encoder to a raspberry pi, I'll poll it with interrupts. But what kind of contact ( I ), is it like a C channel or something else?
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Answer 1

Zero position pulse, one per revolution.