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FSI
U+2068 · FIRST STRONG ISOLATE

First Strong Isolate

  • CodepointU+2068
  • NameFIRST STRONG ISOLATE
  • Decimal8296
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version6.3 (2013)
  • Bidi classFSI — First Strong Isolate
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2068 is FIRST STRONG ISOLATE, an invisible format character in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 6.3 (2013).

It is invisible. It changes how surrounding text is processed or displayed but has no glyph of its own, which makes it easy to paste by accident.

It is a default-ignorable codepoint: when a font or renderer does not support it, it should be displayed as nothing at all rather than as a missing-glyph box.

Common abbreviation: FSI.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 A83 bytes
UTF-1620681 code unit
UTF-32000020684 bytes
HTML decimal⁨
HTML hex⁨
CSS\2068in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2068
JSON\u2068
Python\u2068
Python\N{FIRST STRONG ISOLATE}by name
Java / C#\u2068
C / C++\u2068universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2068}
Go\u2068
Ruby\u2068
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8296)
URL-encoded%E2%81%A8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
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