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Glyph for U+0178
Source: Noto Sans

U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis

U+0178 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0100 to U+017F Latin Extended-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its lowercase variant Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis.

The glyph is a Canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y, Glyph for U+0308 Combining Diaeresis. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+0178 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

ÿ is a Latin script character composed of the letter Y and the diaeresis diacritical mark. It occurs in French as a variant of ⟨ï⟩ in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the Parisian suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses [la.i le ʁoz] and in the surname of the house of Croÿ [kʁu.i].

As ⟨ÿ⟩ rarely appears as the first letter in a name, and all-caps text typically omitted all accents, initially there was assumed to be no need for an uppercase ⟨Ÿ⟩ when computer character sets such as CP437 and ISO 8859-1 were designed. However much software assumes that conversion from lower-case to upper-case and then back again is lossless, so ⟨Ÿ⟩ was added to many character sets such as CP1252, ISO 8859-15, and Unicode. This also happened to a more prominent character, the German ß.

IPA uses ⟨ÿ⟩ to transcribe the close central compressed vowel, a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

The character has also found use as a metal umlaut.

Representations

System Representation
376
UTF-8 C5 B8
UTF-16 01 78
UTF-32 00 00 01 78
URL-Quoted %C5%B8
HTML hex reference Ÿ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ÿ
HTML named entity Ÿ
Encoding: ISO-8859-14 (hex bytes) AF
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) BE
Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) BE
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) D9
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) 9F
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) 9F
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) 9F
LATEX \"{Y}
AGL: Latin-1 Ydieresis
AGL: Latin-2 Ydieresis
AGL: Latin-3 Ydieresis
AGL: Latin-4 Ydieresis
AGL: Latin-5 Ydieresis
Adobe Glyph List Ydieresis
digraph Y:

Related Characters

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
Unicode 1 Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y DIAERESIS
Block Latin Extended-A
General Category Uppercase Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y Glyph for U+0308 Combining Diaeresis
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
Case Folding Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check No
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Upper
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0178 Latin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+00FF Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R