Technical information

Symbol
NameStart of selected area
Unicode numberU+0086
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement1. C1 controls
DescriptionThe Unicode character †, or U+0086, is known as the "Start Of Selected Area". It belongs to the "Control Pictures" block and falls under the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. This character is generally used in telecommunications applications. It is a control character that indicates the beginning of a selected area for copying or deletion, or the area to be moved. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity†
HTML Entity (hex)†
URL Escape Code%26%23134%3B
UTF-8 (hex)0x26 0x23 0x31 0x33 0x34 0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)1001100010001100110001001100110011010000111011
UTF-160x0086
UTF-320x00000086

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u0086"
CSS Code\0086
JavaScript"\u0086"
Perl\x{0086}
Python 2u"\u0086"
Python 3\u0086
Ruby\u{0086}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this † in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#134;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\0086";
}

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

References