Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN 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 | D0 AA | 208 170 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | 2A 04 | 42 4 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 04 2A | 4 42 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 2A 04 00 00 | 42 4 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 04 2A | 0 0 4 42 | 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) | CA | 202 | 1 |
| KOI8-R | FF | 255 | 1 |
| Shift-JIS | 84 5B | 132 91 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A7 BC | 167 188 | 2 |
| GBK | A7 BC | 167 188 | 2 |
| Big5 | C7 C2 | 199 194 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
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UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- L — Left-to-Right