The replacement character (often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark) is a symbol found in the Unicode standard at code point U+FFFD in the Specials table.

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The character (Replacement Character) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FFFD. It is encoded in the Specials block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The symbol “Replacement Character” is included in the “Replacement characters” subblock of the “Specials” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

The image below shows how the “Replacement Character” symbol might look like on different operating systems. If the font in which this web site is displayed does not contain the symbol and there is no …

If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+FFFD forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.

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The Specials block contains special-purpose characters that serve various non-textual functions in digital text processing. These include the replacement character (used to indicate an unknown or …

In computer data, a substitute character (␚) is a control character that is used to pad transmitted data in order to send it in blocks of fixed size, or to stand in place of a character that is recognized to be …

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