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    The following characters have special behavior in Minecraft, and care should be taken when retexturing them in a custom font:
Unusable

\u0000: NULL �

This character cannot be included in a bitmap font, since it's used as a placeholder to skip certain cells of the texture grid.


\u000a: LINE FEED ⏎

This character can be retextured and appear in text that does not support multiple lines. In chat, it will be invisible and cause a line break.


\u00a7: SECTION SIGN §

This character is never displayed. It also prevents the next character from displaying, and activates legacy formatting.


Surrogates

\ud800 - \udbff: High Surrogates

When these characters appear in a font provider, the game expects a following low surrogate character. If one is found, then the texture will apply whenever the pair are together. If none is found, it's treated like \u0000. Either way, the surrogate character by itself cannot be retextured.


\udc00 - \udfff: Low Surrogates

As above, these characters should be used after a high surrogate. They cannot be retextured by themselves.


Right to Left
Some characters render from right to left, which can be desired but is usually unexpected. All characters with the Unicode Bidirectional Class "AL" (Arabic Letter) or "R" (Right to Left) render this way, but also several characters that aren't defined in Unicode.

\u0590
\u05be
\u05c0
\u05c3
\u05c6
\u05c8 - \u05d2
\u05e8 - \u05ff
\u0608
\u060b
\u060d
\u061b - \u0620
\u0648 - \u065f
\u066d - \u066f
\u070b - \u0710
\u0712
\u072d - \u072f
\u074b - \u074f
\u07a4 - \u07a5
\u07b1 - \u07c2
\u07f4 - \u07f5
\u07fa - \u07fc
\u07fe - \u0800
\u081a
\u0824
\u0828
\u082e - \u0832
\u083c - \u0842
\u0856 - \u0858
\u085c - \u0862
\u0868 - \u0897
\u08a0 - \u08a2
\u08b2 - \u08b8
\u08c5 - \u08c9
\u200f
\ufb1d
\ufb1f
\ufb34 - \ufb48
\ufbbf - \ufbd5
\ufd8d - \ufd94
\ufdc5 - \ufdce
\ufdf0 - \ufdf2
\ufe72 - \ufe78
\ufefa - \ufefe