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SS2
U+008E · SINGLE SHIFT TWO

Single Shift Two

  • CodepointU+008E
  • NameSINGLE SHIFT TWO
  • Decimal142
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • 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+008E is SINGLE SHIFT TWO, a control character in the Latin-1 Supplement 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 ISO/IEC 6429 (the C1 control set). Unicode gives control codes no formal name, only the aliases SINGLE SHIFT TWO, SINGLE-SHIFT-2, SS2.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 8E2 bytes
UTF-16008E1 code unit
UTF-320000008E4 bytes
CSS\8Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u008E
JSON\u008E
Python\u008E
Python\N{SINGLE SHIFT TWO}by name
Java / C#\u008E
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{8E}
Go\u008E
Ruby\u008E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(142)
URL-encoded%C2%8Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+0088HTSCharacter Tabulation Set U+0089HTJCharacter Tabulation with Justification U+008AVTSLine Tabulation Set U+008BPLDPartial Line Forward U+008CPLUPartial Line Backward U+008DRIReverse Line Feed U+008FSS3Single Shift Three U+0090DCSDevice Control String U+0091PU1Private Use One U+0092PU2Private Use Two U+0093STSSet Transmit State U+0094CCHCancel Character