Classification
Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.
- Codepoint
- U+017F
- Decimal
- 383
- Plane
- BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
- Category
- Lowercase Letter (Ll)
- Block
- Latin Extended-A
- Script
- Latin
- Bidi class
- L Left-to-Right
- East Asian Width
- N Narrow
- Properties
- Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
- Uppercase
- S U+0053
Encodings & Escape Sequences
Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Small Letter Long S.
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| Format | Value | |
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| HTML Decimal |
ſ
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| HTML Hex |
ſ
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| UTF-8 Hex Bytes |
C5 BF
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| UTF-16 Hex Bytes |
01 7F
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| UTF-32 Hex |
0000017F
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| CSS Escape |
\17F
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| JavaScript Escape |
\u017F
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| Python Escape |
\u017F
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| URL Encoded |
%C5%BF
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Normalization Forms
Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.
Decomposition
This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a compatibility decomposition — the character is a stylistic or semantic variant of its components, not an exact equivalent.
Characters That Include This
These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Latin Small Letter Long S as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.