Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S' (U+00DF) |
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| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Category | Letter, Lowercase [Ll] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Left-to-Right [L] |
| Mirror | N |
| Index entries | S, LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP SHARP S, LATIN SMALL LETTER eszett |
| Comments | Eszett German not used in Swiss High German uppercase is "SS" (standard case mapping), alternatively U+1E9E typographically the glyph for this character can be based on a ligature of U+017F with either U+0073 or with an old-style glyph for U+007A (the latter similar in appearance to U+0292). Both forms exist interchangeably today. |
| See Also | latin small letter long s U+017F latin small letter ezh U+0292 greek small letter beta U+03B2 latin capital letter sharp s U+1E9E latin small letter beta U+A7B5 latin small letter middle scots s U+A7D7 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | ß |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ß |
| HTML Entity (named) | ß |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +00DF Alt 0223 Alt 225 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC3 0x9F (c39f) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11000011:10011111 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x00DF (00df) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 223 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x000000DF (00DF) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 223 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u00DF" |
| Python source code | u"\u00DF" |
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| Java Data | |
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| string.toUpperCase() | SS |
| string.toLowerCase() | ß |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT |
| 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 |
