Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA' (U+03C2)

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Every character has a story #8: U+03c2 (GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA) from Michael Kaplan.

Unicode Data
Name GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA
Block Greek and Coptic
Category Letter, Lowercase [Ll]
Combine 0
BIDI Left-to-Right [L]
Mirror N
Upper case U+03A3
Title case U+03A3
Comments stigma (the Modern Greek name for this letterform)
not to be confused with the actual stigma letter
See Also greek small letter stigma U+03DB
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) ς
HTML Entity (hex) ς
HTML Entity (named) ς
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +03C2
UTF-8 (hex) 0xCF 0x82 (cf82)
UTF-8 (binary) 11001111:10000010
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03C2 (03c2)
UTF-16 (decimal) 962
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003C2 (03c2)
UTF-32 (decimal) 962
C/C++/Java source code "\u03C2"
Python source code u"\u03C2"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() Σ
string.toLowerCase() ς
Character.UnicodeBlock GREEK
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_LEFT_TO_RIGHT [0]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 2
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isLetter() Yes
Character.isLetterOrDigit() Yes
Character.isLowerCase() Yes
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No