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Technical information
| Symbol | ||
| Name | Start of text | |
| Unicode number | U+0002 | |
| Category | ASCII Table1. ASCII control characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character , or U+0002, is known as the "Start of Text". This character falls under the "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" block in the Unicode standard and belongs to the "Other Control" category. The Start of Text character, abbreviated as STX, is a control character in the ASCII character set that signifies the start of a text segment intended for automated processing. It was originally designed to be used in transmission protocols to signal the start of a new message or text segment, and it is still used in some data communication contexts today. It's rarely seen in textual content intended for human reading as it's a non-printable character, meaning it does not represent a written symbol or glyph. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity |  | |
| HTML Entity (hex) |  | |
| URL Escape Code | %02 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x02 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00000010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0002 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000002 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0002" | |
| CSS Code | \0002 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0002" | |
| Perl | \x{0002} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0002" | |
| Python 3 | \u0002 | |
| Ruby | \u{0002} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .
input-group
Font size:
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CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span></span>
span {
content: "\0002";
}The symbol in different fonts
-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana