Specials (Unicode block) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/11/2018

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Specials (Unicode block)

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Specials is a short Unicode block allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five are assigned as of Unicode 11.0:

U+FFF9  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR, marks start of annotated text
U+FFFA  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR, marks start of annotating character(s)
U+FFFB  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR, marks end of annotation block
U+FFFC ￼ OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, placeholder in the text for another unspecified object, for example in a compound document.
U+FFFD � REPLACEMENT CHARACTER used to replace an unknown, unrecognized or unrepresentable character
U+FFFE noncharacter-FFFE not a character.
U+FFFF noncharacter-FFFF not a character.FFFE and FFFF are not unassigned in the usual sense, but guaranteed not to be a Unicode character at all. They can be used to guess a text's encoding scheme, since any text containing these is by definition not a correctly encoded Unicode text. Unicode's U+FEFF  BYTE ORDER MARK character can be inserted at the beginning of a Unicode text to signal its endianness: a program reading such a text and encountering 0xFFFE would then know that it should switch the byte order for all the following characters.