Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character # has the Unicode code point U+FF03. 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+FF03 to binary:
11111111 00000011
. 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 10111100 10000011
FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN·U+FF03
#
Character Information
Code Point
U+FF03
HEX
FF03
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Punctuation
Character Representations
Click elements to copyEncoding | Hex | Binary |
---|---|---|
UTF8 | EF BC 83 | 11101111 10111100 10000011 |
UTF16 (big Endian) | FF 03 | 11111111 00000011 |
UTF16 (little Endian) | 03 FF | 00000011 11111111 |
UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 FF 03 | 00000000 00000000 11111111 00000011 |
UTF32 (little Endian) | 03 FF 00 00 | 00000011 11111111 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
#
URI Encoded
%EF%BC%83
Description
How to type the # symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 65283 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.