U+007F Delete *
U+007F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Control and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as DELETE.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Boundary Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+007F prohibits a line break before it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The delete control character (also called DEL or rubout) is the last character in the ASCII repertoire, with the code 127. It is supposed to do nothing and was designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape. It is denoted as ^? in caret notation and is U+007F in Unicode.
Terminal emulators may produce DEL when ← Backspace key or Control+← Backspace or Control+? are typed.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 127 |
| UTF-8 | 7F |
| UTF-16 | 00 7F |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 7F |
| URL-Quoted | %7F |
| HTML hex reference |  |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â¡ |
| Caret Notation | ^? |
| control | DELETE |
| abbreviation | DEL |
| alias | DELETE |
| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 7F |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 07 |
| Adobe Glyph List | controlDEL |
| digraph | DT |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| — | |
| DELETE | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Control | |
| Common | |
| Boundary Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Delete* | |
| ✘ | |
| Delete* | |
| Delete* | |
| ✘ | |
| Delete* | |
| Delete* | |
| Delete* | |
| Delete* | |
| Delete* | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Delete* | |
| Control | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Delete* | |
| Yes | |
| Delete* | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Delete* | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Combining Mark | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Delete* | |
| R |