Unicode Character "SOS" U+0098 START OF STRING
Unicode Version 15.1
SOS
Summary
The unicode character "SOS" at code point U+0098 is START OF STRING. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is a control. The UTF-8 encoding of "SOS" is 0xC2 0x98 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0098.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0098 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Start of String |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
| Alias | SOS (abbreviation) START OF STRING (control) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0098 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000098 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0098 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Control |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |