Interlinear annotation | |||
Used internally for Japanese Ruby (furigana), etc. | |||
FFF9 | | Interlinear Annotation Anchor | |
• | marks start of annotated text | ||
FFFA | | Interlinear Annotation Separator | |
• | marks start of annotating character(s) | ||
FFFB | | Interlinear Annotation Terminator | |
• | marks end of annotation block | ||
Replacement characters | |||
FFFC |  | Object Replacement Character | |
• | used as placeholder in text for an otherwise unspecified object | ||
FFFD | � | Replacement Character | |
• | used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode | ||
• | compare the use of 001A ␚ as a control character to indicate the substitute function | ||
→ | 2BD1 ⯑ uncertainty sign | ||
→ | 1FBC4 🯄 negative squared question mark | ||
Noncharacters | |||
These codes are intended for process-internal uses. | |||
FFFE | █ | <Not A Character> | |
• | may be used to detect byte order by contrast with FEFF ⬚ | ||
→ | FEFF ⬚ zero width no-break space | ||
FFFF | █ | <Not A Character> |
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