U+008D "RI" REVERSE INDEX Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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
Unicode 1.0 Name
Reverse Line Feed
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