U+E005C "" Tag Reverse Solidus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E005C "" Tag Reverse Solidus is a special purpose code point within the Unicode "Tags" block, specifically a formatting character used in an obsolete mechanism for tagging plain text with language or other metadata. This character is not intended for general display or conventional writing but rather acted as a visual place holder within a sequence of tag characters, each representing a letter or symbol, that could be interpreted by software to apply invisible markup. It is a deprecated Unicode feature, meaning that its use is discouraged in modern applications, and it primarily exists in the standard for historical compatibility, with modern implementations favoring alternative encoding methods like language tags or XML.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E005C |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Reverse Solidus |
| Block | Tags |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠁜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠁜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x81 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E005C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc5c |