This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F5A8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “printer” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: computer.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: 🖨️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal printers.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
128424
UTF-8
F0 9F 96 A8
UTF-16
D8 3D DD A8
UTF-32
00 01 F5 A8
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%96%A8
HTML hex reference
🖨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
🖨
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
94 39 F3 38
RFC 5137
\u'1F5A8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F5A8
C and C++
\U0001F5A8
C#
\U0001F5A8
CSS
\01F5A8
Excel
=UNICHAR(128424)
Go
\U0001F5A8
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDDA8
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f5a8}
JSON
\uD83D\uDDA8
Java
\uD83D\uDDA8
Lua
\u{1F5A8}
Matlab
char(128424)
Perl
"\x{1F5A8}"
PHP
\u{1f5a8}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F5A8'
PowerShell
`u{1F5A8}
Python
\U0001F5A8
Ruby
\u{1f5a8}
Rust
\u{1f5a8}
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