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Glyph for U+00AF
Source: Noto Sans

U+00AF Macron

U+00AF was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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 Glyph for U+0020 Space, Glyph for U+0304 Combining Macron. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+00AF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

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
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 &macr
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) MACRON
Unicode 1 Name (na1) SPACING MACRON
Block (blk) Latin-1 Supplement
General Category (gc) Modifier Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0304 Combining Macron
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0304 Combining Macron
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0304 Combining Macron
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) narrow
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+00AF Macron
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R