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Glyph for U+2028
Source: Noto Sans Symbols2

U+2028 Line Separator

U+2028 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Line Separator and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as White Space and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2028 behaves as Mandatory Break regarding line breaks. It has type Separator for sentence and Newline for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Control.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8232
UTF-8 E2 80 A8
UTF-16 20 28
UTF-32 00 00 20 28
URL-Quoted %E2%80%A8
HTML hex reference 

Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ␤

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LINE SEPARATOR
Unicode 1 Name —
Block General Punctuation
General Category Line Separator
Script Common
Bidirectional Category White Space
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Case Folding Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✘
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Grapheme Cluster Break Control
Grapheme Base ✘
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✘
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✔
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Separator
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Newline
White Space ✔
XID Continue ✘
XID Start ✘
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Mandatory Break
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2028 Line Separator
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R