U+008D "RI" REVERSE INDEX Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
RI
U+008D "RI" REVERSE INDEX is a control character from the C1 control code set, originally defined for use in telecommunication and data processing systems to represent a reverse index command, which typically moves the cursor or print position one line upward without altering the horizontal position. It is part of the legacy ISO/IEC 6429 standard and is classified as a format effector in Unicode, though it holds no visible glyph and is rarely used in modern text processing contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+008D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Reverse Line Feed |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
| Alias | REVERSE INDEX (control) REVERSE LINE FEED (control) RI (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |  |
| HTML Hex Encoding |  |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x008D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000008D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u008d |
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 |