This character is a Other Number and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The codepoint represents the digit8.
The glyph is a subscript version of the glyph Glyph for U+0038Digit Eight. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as European number from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2088 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8328
UTF-8
E2 82 88
UTF-16
20 88
UTF-32
00 00 20 88
URL-Quoted
%E2%82%88
HTML hex reference
₈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
₈
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 AF 36
AGL: Latin-4
eight.inferior
AGL: Latin-5
eight.inferior
Adobe Glyph List
eightinferior
digraph
8s
RFC 5137
\u'2088'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2088
C and C++
\u2088
C#
\u2088
CSS
\002088
Excel
=UNICHAR(8328)
Go
\u2088
JavaScript
\u2088
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2088}
JSON
\u2088
Java
\u2088
Lua
\u{2088}
Matlab
char(8328)
Perl
"\x{2088}"
PHP
\u{2088}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2088'
PowerShell
`u{2088}
Python
\u2088
Ruby
\u{2088}
Rust
\u{2088}
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