U+009E "PM" PRIVACY MESSAGE Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
PM
U+009E "PM" PRIVACY MESSAGE is a historic control code originally defined in older character encoding standards like ISO 8859-1 and used within telecommunication protocols to signal the beginning of a privacy message, such as a secure or confidential transmission, or to mark text that should not be permanently stored. However, in the modern Unicode standard, this character is designated as a C1 control code and is generally deprecated for use in plain text, as its intended function is better handled by contemporary encryption and message handling systems. It is not a printable glyph and has no standard visual representation, making it rarely encountered outside of legacy data or specialized low level communication contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+009E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Privacy Message |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
| Alias | PM (abbreviation) PRIVACY MESSAGE (control) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ž |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ž |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x009E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000009E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u009e |
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 |