U+0098 "SOS" START OF STRING Unicode Character

U+0098 "SOS" START OF STRING is a control character from the C1 control code set, originally defined for use in telecommunication protocols to mark the beginning of a string of data in a transmission. It does not represent a visible glyph or symbol, but rather serves as an invisible instruction for systems to interpret the subsequent characters as a cohesive sequence. Unlike the more widely known Morse code distress signal, this U+0098 code point is a rarely used technical artifact, primarily relevant to legacy data processing and certain text encoding standards like ISO 8859 and Windows code pages.