U+0088 "HTS" CHARACTER TABULATION SET Unicode Character

U+0088 "HTS" CHARACTER TABULATION SET is a control character in the C1 control code set, specifically designed to set a tab stop position for horizontal alignment in text output. Unlike the more common HORIZONTAL TABULATION (HT) which moves the cursor to the next preset tab stop, HTS is used to define or mark a specific column position as a new tab stop for subsequent tab characters to reference. This character originates from older terminal and printer protocols, such as ANSI X3.64, and is typically not intended for display in modern text but rather for legacy data stream processing or terminal emulation where precise column formatting is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0088
Version Added	1.1
Unicode 1.0 Name	Character Tabulation Set
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Control
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Boundary Neutral
Alias	CHARACTER TABULATION SET (control) HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET (control) HTS (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ˆ
HTML Hex Encoding	ˆ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0088
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000088
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0088

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