Space is a graphic character. It has a visual representation consisting of the absence of a graphic symbol. It causes the active position to be advanced by one character position. In some applications, Space can be considered a lowest-level "word separator" to be used with the adjacent separator characters.
These are the code points for space in various character sets
| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII | 32 | 20 |
The character for space is mapped in Unicode as U+0020
| Unicode | U+0020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 32 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0020 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x90 0xA0 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 111000101001000010100000 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 111000101001000010100000 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0020 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000020 | |
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the space in HTML
| HTML Number | |
|---|---|
| HTML Hex |
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers
| URL Escape Code | %20 |
|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =20 |
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0020" |
|---|---|
| CSS Code | \0020 |
| JavaScript | "\u0020" |
| Perl | \x |
| Python 2 | u"\u0020" |
| Python 3 | \u0020 |
| Ruby | \u |