REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

Property	Value
Codepoint	`U+FFFD`
Literal Character	�
Name	REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
Sketch	........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........
Control Character	no

Block	Linear B Syllabary
Subblock	Syriac points (vowels)

UTF-8 byte encoding	`ef bf bd`
UTF-16 byte encoding	`ff fd` (big endian)
HTML Entity	`�`
Perl string literal	`\x{FFFD}`

Comments	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	U+2BD1: uncertainty sign U+1FBC4: negative squared question mark U+FEFF: zero width no-break space

Unicode Block

Codepage