U+FFFE Noncharacter *
U+FFFE was added to Unicode in version 2.0 (1996). It belongs to the block
This character is a Unassigned and is mainly used in the Unknown script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Boundary Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+FFFE behaves as Unknown regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
This is a so-called “noncharacter”, one of 66 in Unicode. These codepoints are reserved solely for internal use. For further information, see Unicode’s FAQ on noncharacters.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 65534 |
UTF-8 | EF BF BE |
UTF-16 | FF FE |
UTF-32 | 00 00 FF FE |
URL-Quoted | %EF%BF%BE |
HTML hex reference |  |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | � |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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2.0 (1996) | |
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Unassigned | |
Unknown | |
Boundary Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
1 | |
1 | |
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1 | |
1 | |
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Other | |
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✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Unknown | |
None | |
not a number | |
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Unknown | |
R |