Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent CUNEIFORM SIGN BU OVER BU AB in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 92 81 8E | 240 146 129 142 | 4 |
| UTF-16 LE | 08 D8 4E DC | 8 216 78 220 | 4 |
| UTF-16 BE | D8 08 DC 4E | 216 8 220 78 | 4 |
| UTF-32 LE | 4E 20 01 00 | 78 32 1 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 01 20 4E | 0 1 32 78 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | not supported | ||
| Windows-1252 | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | not supported | ||
| Shift-JIS | not supported | ||
| EUC-JP | not supported | ||
| GBK | not supported | ||
| Big5 | not supported |
Escape Sequences
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UTF-8 encodes this character as 4 bytes. The leading 11110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 4-byte sequence, used for all supplementary plane characters (codepoints above U+FFFF). Bytes 2β4 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 5.0
- Bidi Class
- L β Left-to-Right