Unicode Character 'BACKSPACE' (U+0008)

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Unicode Data
Name <control>
Block Basic Latin
Category Other, Control [Cc]
Combine 0
BIDI Boundary Neutral [BN]
Mirror N
Old name BACKSPACE
Index entries BACKSPACE
Comments BACKSPACE
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) &#8;
HTML Entity (hex) &#x8;
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0008
Alt 08
Alt 8
UTF-8 (hex) 0x08 (08)
UTF-8 (binary) 00001000
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0008 (0008)
UTF-16 (decimal) 8
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000008 (0008)
UTF-32 (decimal) 8
C/C++/Java source code "\u0008"
Python source code u"\u0008"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() 
string.toLowerCase() 
Character.UnicodeBlock BASIC_LATIN
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_BOUNDARY_NEUTRAL [9]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 15
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() Yes
Character.isISOControl() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() No
Character.isLetter() No
Character.isLetterOrDigit() No
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No