U+0080 "PAD" Latin-1 Supplement Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
PAD
U+0080 "PAD" Latin-1 Supplement is a control character designated as "PADding character," which originates from the C0 and C1 control code sets used in early telecommunication and data transmission systems. It was intended to be inserted into a data stream to achieve a specific transmission rate or to fill idle time, but it has no visual glyph or linguistic meaning. In modern computing, this character is generally considered obsolete and is rarely used, as its function has been superseded by more sophisticated networking protocols and data framing techniques.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0080 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
| Alias | PAD (abbreviation) PADDING CHARACTER (figment) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | € |
| HTML Hex Encoding | € |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0080 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000080 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0080 |
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 |