The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Glyph for U+0073Latin Small Letter S. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+017F 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:
S, or for lowercase, s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ess (pronounced ), plural esses.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
383
UTF-8
C5 BF
UTF-16
01 7F
UTF-32
00 00 01 7F
URL-Quoted
%C5%BF
HTML hex reference
ſ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
Å¿
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 30 97 37
AGL: Latin-5
longs
Adobe Glyph List
longs
Adobe Glyph List
slong
RFC 5137
\u'017F'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u017F
C and C++
\u017F
C#
\u017F
CSS
\00017F
Excel
=UNICHAR(383)
Go
\u017F
JavaScript
\u017F
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{17f}
JSON
\u017F
Java
\u017F
Lua
\u{17F}
Matlab
char(383)
Perl
"\x{17F}"
PHP
\u{17f}
PostgreSQL
U&'\017F'
PowerShell
`u{17F}
Python
\u017F
Ruby
\u{17f}
Rust
\u{17f}
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