U+00AF Macron
U+00AF 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 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 Space, 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 |
|---|---|
| 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: CP037 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | EE |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | EE |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | EE |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | EE |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 C2 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 9D |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F A2 B4 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A9 AB |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A9 AB |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 85 34 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 34 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 34 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 29 2B 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 29 2B 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 34 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 4A |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 4A |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | BC |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MACRON | |
| SPACING MACRON | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Modifier Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Space Combining Macron | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Macron | |
| Macron | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Macron | |
| Macron | |
| Macron | |
| Macron | |
| Macron | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Macron | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Space Combining Macron | |
| No | |
| Space Combining Macron | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Macron | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Macron | |
| R |