Unicode Character 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' (U+FFFD) |
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| Unicode Data | |
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| Name | REPLACEMENT CHARACTER |
| Block | Specials |
| Category | Symbol, Other [So] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] |
| Mirror | N |
| Index entries | REPLACEMENT CHARACTER |
| Comments | used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode compare the use of U+001A as a control character to indicate the substitute function |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
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| HTML Entity (decimal) | � |
| HTML Entity (hex) | � |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +FFFD |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD (efbfbd) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11101111:10111111:10111101 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0xFFFD (fffd) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 65,533 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x0000FFFD (fffd) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 65,533 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\uFFFD" |
| Python source code | u"\uFFFD" |
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| Java Data | |
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| string.toUpperCase() | � |
| string.toLowerCase() | � |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | SPECIALS |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 28 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No |
| 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() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |
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