U+0085 "NEL" NEXT LINE Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
NEL
U+0085 "NEL" NEXT LINE is a control character originally defined in the EBCDIC encoding standard, where it was used to indicate the end of a line and the beginning of a new one, similar to a line break. In Unicode, it is part of the C1 control character set and serves a comparable function to LINE FEED (LF) or CARRIAGE RETURN (CR), but it is rarely used in modern text processing. Its primary purpose is to maintain compatibility with older EBCDIC systems, and it is not considered a standard line terminator in most contemporary file formats or operating systems, which typically rely on LF, CR, or CR+LF sequences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0085 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Next Line (Nel) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Paragraph Separator |
| Alias | NEL (abbreviation) NEXT LINE (control) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | … |
| HTML Hex Encoding | … |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0085 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000085 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0085 |
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 | Next Line |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern White Space | Yes |
| White Space | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Control |
| Word Break | Newline |
| Sentence Break | Sep |