| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+0002 |
| Literal Character | - |
| Name | START OF TEXT |
| Sketch | ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ |
| Control Character | yes |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| Subblock | C0 controls |
| UTF-8 byte encoding | 02 |
| UTF-16 byte encoding | 00 02 (big endian) |
| HTML Entity |  |
| Perl string literal | \x{2} |