Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES 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 9F 98 B8 | 240 159 152 184 | 4 |
| UTF-16 LE | 3D D8 38 DE | 61 216 56 222 | 4 |
| UTF-16 BE | D8 3D DE 38 | 216 61 222 56 | 4 |
| UTF-32 LE | 38 F6 01 00 | 56 246 1 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 01 F6 38 | 0 1 246 56 | 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 2–4 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 6.0
- Bidi Class
- ON — Other Neutral