Unicode Character 'MACRON' (U+00AF)

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MACRON

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MACRON

Unicode Data
Name MACRON
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Category Symbol, Modifier [Sk]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Decomposition SPACE (SP) (U+0020)
COMBINING MACRON (U+0304)
Old name SPACING MACRON
Index entries apl overbar
MACRON
macron, spacing
overbar, apl
overline
spacing macron
Comments Formal Alias: overline, APL overbar
this is a spacing character
unlike U+203E, adjacent instances of this character do not join
See Also modifier letter macron U+02C9
combining macron U+0304
combining overline U+0305
overline U+203E
combining conjoining macron U+FE26
Approximations 0020 0304
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) ¯
HTML Entity (hex) ¯
HTML Entity (named) ¯: ¯
¯: ¯
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +00AF
Alt 0175
UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xAF (c2af)
UTF-8 (binary) 11000010:10101111
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00AF (00af)
UTF-16 (decimal) 175
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000AF (00af)
UTF-32 (decimal) 175
C/C++/Java source code "\u00AF"
Python source code u"\u00AF"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() ¯
string.toLowerCase() ¯
Character.UnicodeBlock LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 27
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() No
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() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No