Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL 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 BB | 208 187 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | 3B 04 | 59 4 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 04 3B | 4 59 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 3B 04 00 00 | 59 4 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 04 3B | 0 0 4 59 | 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) | DB | 219 | 1 |
| KOI8-R | CC | 204 | 1 |
| Shift-JIS | 84 7C | 132 124 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A7 DD | 167 221 | 2 |
| GBK | A7 DD | 167 221 | 2 |
| Big5 | C7 D4 | 199 212 | 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.