U+0087 "ESA" END OF SELECTED AREA Unicode Character

U+0087 "ESA" END OF SELECTED AREA is a control character from the C1 control code set, originally defined for use in text transmission and processing to mark the precise boundary where a selected or highlighted portion of text ends. It is part of a suite of formatting controls, often used in conjunction with its counterpart, "Start of Selected Area" (U+0086), to delineate regions of interest within a document or data stream. While rarely encountered in modern plain text, this character remains defined in Unicode for compatibility with older systems, particularly those following the ISO/IEC 6429 standard, and its inclusion ensures that historical data can be accurately represented without loss of intended semantic structure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0087
Version Added	1.1
Unicode 1.0 Name	End of Selected Area
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Control
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Boundary Neutral
Alias	END OF SELECTED AREA (control) ESA (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	‡
HTML Hex Encoding	‡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC2 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0087
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000087
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0087

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