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SPA
U+0096 · START OF GUARDED AREA

Start of Guarded Area

  • CodepointU+0096
  • NameSTART OF GUARDED AREA
  • Decimal150
  • 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+0096 is START OF GUARDED AREA, 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 START OF GUARDED AREA, START OF PROTECTED AREA, SPA.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 962 bytes
UTF-1600961 code unit
UTF-32000000964 bytes
CSS\96in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0096
JSON\u0096
Python\u0096
Python\N{START OF GUARDED AREA}by name
Java / C#\u0096
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{96}
Go\u0096
Ruby\u0096
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(150)
URL-encoded%C2%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+0090DCSDevice Control String U+0091PU1Private Use One U+0092PU2Private Use Two U+0093STSSet Transmit State U+0094CCHCancel Character U+0095MWMessage Waiting U+0097EPAEnd of Guarded Area U+0098SOSStart of String U+0099SGCSingle Graphic Character Introducer U+009ASCISingle Character Introducer U+009BCSIControl Sequence Introducer U+009CSTString Terminator