Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character has the Unicode code point U+F8FF. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of
0x0800
to0xffff
.
Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format:1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
Where thex
are the payload bits.UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range Codepoint Range Bytes Bit pattern Payload length U+0000 - U+007F 1 0xxxxxxx 7 bits U+0080 - U+07FF 2 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx 11 bits U+0800 - U+FFFF 3 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 16 bits U+10000 - U+10FFFF 4 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 21 bits Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:
Convert the hexadecimal code point U+F8FF to binary:
11111000 11111111
. Those are the payload bits.Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:
Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
11101111 10100011 10111111
<Private Use, Last>·U+F8FF
Character Information
Code Point
U+F8FF
HEX
F8FF
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Private Use
Character Representations
Click elements to copyEncoding | Hex | Binary |
---|---|---|
UTF8 | EF A3 BF | 11101111 10100011 10111111 |
UTF16 (big Endian) | F8 FF | 11111000 11111111 |
UTF16 (little Endian) | FF F8 | 11111111 11111000 |
UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 F8 FF | 00000000 00000000 11111000 11111111 |
UTF32 (little Endian) | FF F8 00 00 | 11111111 11111000 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity

URI Encoded
%EF%A3%BF
Description
How to type the symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 63743 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.