U+0082 "BPH" BREAK PERMITTED HERE Unicode Character

U+0082 "BPH" BREAK PERMITTED HERE is a control character originally defined for use in text processing to indicate a specific location where a line or word break is allowed to occur, without forcing a break. It was designed to give format control over how text wraps, essentially marking a permissible point for a new line to start if needed by the layout. However, it is part of the C1 control character set and is largely considered obsolete for modern digital text encoding, as contemporary applications typically use higher level formatting such as soft hyphens or CSS properties to handle line breaking logic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0082
Version Added	1.1
Unicode 1.0 Name	Break Permitted Here
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Control
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Boundary Neutral
Alias	BPH (abbreviation) BREAK PERMITTED HERE (control)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	‚
HTML Hex Encoding	‚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC2 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0082
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000082
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0082

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