This character is a Space Separator and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Space. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as White Space. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2008 offers a line break opportunity after its position. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8200
UTF-8
E2 80 88
UTF-16
20 08
UTF-32
00 00 20 08
URL-Quoted
%E2%80%88
HTML hex reference
 
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
 
HTML named entity
 
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 A4 34
LATEX
\hphantom{,}
RFC 5137
\u'2008'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2008
C and C++
\u2008
C#
\u2008
CSS
\002008
Excel
=UNICHAR(8200)
Go
\u2008
JavaScript
\u2008
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2008}
JSON
\u2008
Java
\u2008
Lua
\u{2008}
Matlab
char(8200)
Perl
"\x{2008}"
PHP
\u{2008}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2008'
PowerShell
`u{2008}
Python
\u2008
Ruby
\u{2008}
Rust
\u{2008}
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