Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character ස has the Unicode code point U+0DC3. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of
0x0800to0xffff.
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 thexare 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+0DC3 to binary:
00001101 11000011. 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:
11100000 10110111 10000011
SINHALA LETTER DANTAJA SAYANNA·U+0DC3
ස
Character Information
Code Point
U+0DC3
HEX
0DC3
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | E0 B7 83 | 11100000 10110111 10000011 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 0D C3 | 00001101 11000011 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | C3 0D | 11000011 00001101 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 0D C3 | 00000000 00000000 00001101 11000011 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | C3 0D 00 00 | 11000011 00001101 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
ස
URI Encoded
%E0%B7%83
Description
The Unicode character U+0DC3 represents the Sinhala letter 'ඩ' or "Dantaja Sayanna" in the Devanagari script. This character is primarily used within digital text for writing in the Sinhalese language, which is spoken by the majority of the population in Sri Lanka. In its cultural and linguistic context, the Dantaja Sayanna letter plays a crucial role in the phonetics and orthography of the Sinhala script. The Sinhala language is an Indo-Aryan language that has evolved from Sanskrit and Prakrit, and it is one of the two official languages of Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. As for its technical aspects, U+0DC3 belongs to the Sinhala Extended range (1DB00-1DDFF) in the Unicode Standard, which aims to provide a unique code point for every character in all written languages.
How to type the ස symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 3523 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.