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SOS
U+0098 · START OF STRING

Start of String

  • CodepointU+0098
  • NameSTART OF STRING
  • Decimal152
  • 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+0098 is START OF STRING, 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 STRING, SOS.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 982 bytes
UTF-1600981 code unit
UTF-32000000984 bytes
CSS\98in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0098
JSON\u0098
Python\u0098
Python\N{START OF STRING}by name
Java / C#\u0098
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{98}
Go\u0098
Ruby\u0098
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(152)
URL-encoded%C2%98percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+0092PU2Private Use Two U+0093STSSet Transmit State U+0094CCHCancel Character U+0095MWMessage Waiting U+0096SPAStart of Guarded Area U+0097EPAEnd of Guarded Area U+0099SGCSingle Graphic Character Introducer U+009ASCISingle Character Introducer U+009BCSIControl Sequence Introducer U+009CSTString Terminator U+009DOSCOperating System Command U+009EPMPrivacy Message