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STX
U+0002 · START OF TEXT

Start of Text

  • CodepointU+0002
  • NameSTART OF TEXT
  • Decimal2
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCc — Control
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0002 is START OF TEXT, a control character in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a control code inherited from ASCII. Unicode gives control codes no formal name, only the aliases START OF TEXT, STX.

Its visible stand-in is U+2402 ␂ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8021 byte
UTF-1600021 code unit
UTF-32000000024 bytes
CSS\2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0002
JSON\u0002
Python\u0002
Python\N{START OF TEXT}by name
Java / C#\u0002
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2}
Go\u0002
Ruby\u0002
URL-encoded%02percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0000NULNull U+0001SOHStart of Heading U+0003ETXEnd of Text U+0004EOTEnd of Transmission U+0005ENQEnquiry U+0006ACKAcknowledge U+0007BELAlert U+0008BSBackspace