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Technical information

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Name	Start of guarded area
Unicode number	U+0096
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 1. C1 controls

Description

The Unicode character U+0096, also known as "Start of Guarded Area" or "SPA", is a control character in the "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" block. This character doesn't have a graphical representation and is not typically used in modern systems. Originally, it was intended to initiate a guarded area in electronic document processing, particularly for text that should not undergo any modifications. Its usage has diminished in contemporary computing due to the development of more sophisticated access control methods.

Encoding

HTML Entity
HTML Entity (hex)
URL Escape Code	%26%23150%3B
UTF-8 (hex)	0x26 0x23 0x31 0x35 0x30 0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)	1001100010001100110001001101010011000000111011
UTF-16	0x0096
UTF-32	0x00000096

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u0096"
CSS Code	\0096
JavaScript	"\u0096"
Perl	\x{0096}
Python 2	u"\u0096"
Python 3	\u0096
Ruby	\u{0096}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

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input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#150;</span>

span {
    content: "\0096";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system

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Apple Color Emoji

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Arial

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BlinkMacSystemFont

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Courier New

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Georgia

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Droid Sans

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Helvetica

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Noto Sans

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Oxygen

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Roboto

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"Segoe UI"

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sans-serif

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Segoe UI Emoji

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Segoe UI Symbol

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system-ui

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Times New Roman

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Ubuntu

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Verdana

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