U+00AF Macron
U+00AF was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Modifier Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as overline and APL overbar.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A macron ( MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid-tone; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon ⟨ː⟩.
The opposite is the breve ⟨˘⟩, which marks a short or light syllable or a short vowel.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 175 |
UTF-8 | C2 AF |
UTF-16 | 00 AF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 AF |
URL-Quoted | %C2%AF |
HTML hex reference | ¯ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌¯ |
HTML named entity | ¯ |
HTML named entity | ¯ |
HTML named entity | ¯ |
alias | overline |
alias | APL overbar |
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | F8 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | AF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 9D |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | AF |
LATEX | \textasciimacron |
AGL: Latin-1 | macron |
AGL: Latin-2 | macron |
AGL: Latin-3 | macron |
AGL: Latin-4 | macron |
AGL: Latin-5 | macron |
Adobe Glyph List | macron |
Adobe Glyph List | overscore |
digraph | 'm |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
MACRON | |
SPACING MACRON | |
Latin-1 Supplement | |
Modifier Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
compatibility | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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No | |
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No | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
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None | |
narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |