This is the Unicode character End Of Selected Area, code point U+0087 (decimal 135) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ‡, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C2 87.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+0087 |
| Decimal | 135 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 87 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 0087 |
| UTF-32 | 00000087 |
| HTML | not valid in HTML (a numeric reference to it is a parse error) |
| CSS | \87 |
| JavaScript | \u0087 |
| JSON | \u0087 |
| Python | \u0087 |
| Java, C# | \u0087 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{87} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u0087 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C2%87 |
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 | End Of Selected Area |
| Code point | U+0087 (decimal 135) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Cc: Control character |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | BN: Boundary neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- U+0080 Padding Character
- U+0081 High Octet Preset
- U+0082 Break Permitted Here
- U+0083 No Break Here
- U+0084 Index
- U+0085 Next Line
- U+0086 Start Of Selected Area
- U+0088 Character Tabulation Set
- U+0089 Character Tabulation With Justification
- U+008A Line Tabulation Set
- U+008B Partial Line Forward
- U+008C Partial Line Backward
- U+008D Reverse Line Feed
- U+008E Single Shift Two
- U+008F Single Shift Three
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for End Of Selected Area?
- Use ‡ (decimal) or ‡ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+0087?
- C2 87 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C2%87.
- How do I write U+0087 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u0087. Python: \u0087.
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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