Unicode Character "" (U+FEFF)

The character  (Zero Width No-Break Space) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FEFF. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as .

Main Unicode Properties

Name Zero Width No-Break Space
Unicode Codepoint U+FEFF
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Boundary Neutral (BN)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Format
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+FEFF Conversion

HTML (decimal) 
HTML (hex) 
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BB%BF
CSS \00FEFF
JavaScript, JSON \uFEFF
C, C++, Java \uFEFF
Python \uFEFF
Rust \u{FEFF}
Ruby \uFEFF

How to type ""

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F E F F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F E F F. Release Alt.

Preview

  • 
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • 
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • 
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFEFF
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FEFF

References