U+00A7 Section Sign
U+00A7 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+00A7 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “section” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: paragraph, part, silcrow.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German: Paragrafzeichen).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 167 |
| UTF-8 | C2 A7 |
| UTF-16 | 00 A7 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 A7 |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%A7 |
| HTML hex reference | § |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | § |
| HTML named entity | § |
| HTML named entity | § |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 D7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-10 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-14 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | FD |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 F8 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | A4 |
| LATEX | \textsection |
| AGL: Latin-1 | section |
| AGL: Latin-2 | section |
| AGL: Latin-3 | section |
| AGL: Latin-4 | section |
| AGL: Latin-5 | section |
| Adobe Glyph List | section |
| digraph | SE |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SECTION SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Section Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Section Sign | |
| Section Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Section Sign | |
| Section Sign | |
| Section Sign | |
| Section Sign | |
| Section Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Section Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Section Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Section Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Section Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Section Sign | |
| U |