Line Separator

U+2028
BMP Unicode 1.1
Decimal 

Hex 


Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2028
Decimal
8232
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Line Separator (Zl)
Script
Common
Bidi class
WS Whitespace
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Whitespace

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Line Separator.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal


HTML Hex


UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 A8
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 28
UTF-32 Hex
00002028
CSS Escape
\2028
JavaScript Escape
\u2028
Python Escape
\u2028
URL Encoded
%E2%80%A8