Unicode Character 'SOFT HYPHEN' (U+00AD)

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Unicode Data
Name SOFT HYPHEN
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Category Other, Format [Cf]
Combine 0
BIDI Boundary Neutral [BN]
Mirror N
Index entries SOFT HYPHEN
HYPHEN, SOFT
shy
hyphen, discretionary
discretionary hyphen
Comments discretionary hyphen
commonly abbreviated as SHY
an invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) ­
HTML Entity (hex) ­
HTML Entity (named) ­
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +AD
Alt 0173
UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xAD (c2ad)
UTF-8 (binary) 11000010:10101101
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00AD (00ad)
UTF-16 (decimal) 173
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000AD (ad)
UTF-32 (decimal) 173
C/C++/Java source code "\u00AD"
Python source code u"\u00AD"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() ­
string.toLowerCase() ­
Character.UnicodeBlock LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_BOUNDARY_NEUTRAL [9]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 16
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() Yes
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() No
Character.isLetter() No
Character.isLetterOrDigit() No
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No