This is the Unicode character Information Separator Two, code point U+001E (decimal 30) in the Basic Latin block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write , and in UTF-8 it is the single byte 1E.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+001E |
| Decimal | 30 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 1E |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 001E |
| UTF-32 | 0000001E |
| HTML | not valid in HTML (a numeric reference to it is a parse error) |
| CSS | \1E |
| JavaScript | \u001E |
| JSON | \u001E |
| Python | \u001E |
| Java, C# | \u001E |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1E} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u001E |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %1E |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Information Separator Two |
| Code point | U+001E (decimal 30) |
| Block | Basic Latin (U+0000–U+007F) |
| General category | Cc: Control character |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | B: Paragraph separator |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Basic Latin
- U+0016 Synchronous Idle
- U+0017 End Of Transmission Block
- U+0018 Cancel
- U+0019 End Of Medium
- U+001A Substitute
- U+001B Escape
- U+001C Information Separator Four
- U+001D Information Separator Three
- U+001F Information Separator One
- U+0020 Space
- ! U+0021 Exclamation Mark
- " U+0022 Quotation Mark
- # U+0023 Number Sign
- $ U+0024 Dollar Sign
- % U+0025 Percent Sign
- & U+0026 Ampersand
All 128 characters: Basic Latin.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Information Separator Two?
- Use  (decimal) or  (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+001E?
- 1E (hex), 1 byte. In a URL it is %1E.
- How do I write U+001E in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u001E. Python: \u001E.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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