- Codepoint
U+FFFD
- Literal Character
- �
- Name
- REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
- Sketch
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- Control Character
- no
- Subblock
- Replacement characters
- UTF-8 byte encoding
ef bf bd
- UTF-16 byte encoding
ff fd (big endian)
- HTML Entity
�
- Perl string literal
\x{FFFD}
- Comments
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- used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode
- compare the use of 001A as a control character to indicate the substitute function
- may be used to detect byte order by contrast with FEFF
- See Also
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U+2BD1: uncertainty sign
U+1FBC4: negative squared question mark
U+FEFF: zero width no-break space