U+0082 "BPH" BREAK PERMITTED HERE Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

BPH

U+0082 "BPH" BREAK PERMITTED HERE is a control character originally defined for use in text processing to indicate a specific location where a line or word break is allowed to occur, without forcing a break. It was designed to give format control over how text wraps, essentially marking a permissible point for a new line to start if needed by the layout. However, it is part of the C1 control character set and is largely considered obsolete for modern digital text encoding, as contemporary applications typically use higher level formatting such as soft hyphens or CSS properties to handle line breaking logic.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0082
Unicode 1.0 Name
Break Permitted Here
Alias
BPH (abbreviation)
BREAK PERMITTED HERE (control)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xC2 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0082
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000082
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0082