U+2024 One Dot Leader
U+2024 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyph Full Stop. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2024 behaves as Inseparable regarding line breaks. It has type Alphabetic Terminal for sentence and MidNumLet for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A leader in typography is a series of characters, usually lines of dots or dashes, that are used as a visual aid to connect items on a page that might be separated by considerable horizontal distance. For example, dot leaders are often used in tables of contents to connect section headings with the page numbers on which those sections begin.
Most word processing software includes a feature for the automatic generation of dot leaders.
This word is pronounced LEED-ər, like the everyday word "leader" (person who leads), unlike the typographical term leading ( LED-ing), which refers to the use of the metal lead.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8228 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 A4 |
| UTF-16 | 20 24 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 24 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%A4 |
| HTML hex reference | ․ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ․ |
| LATEX | . |
| Adobe Glyph List | onedotenleader |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ONE DOT LEADER | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Compat | |
| Full Stop | |
| ✘ | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| ✘ | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Full Stop | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Terminal | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidNumLet | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Inseparable | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| One Dot Leader | |
| R |