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U+00A8 CHARACTER

DIAERESIS

Quick Facts

Unicode Name DIAERESIS
Code Point U+00A8
Decimal Value 168
General Category Modifier Symbol (Sk) →
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes C2 A8
UTF-16 Code Unit 00A8
UTF-32 4 bytes 000000A8
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 A8 LE: A8 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 A8 LE: A8 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ¨
HTML Hexadecimal ¨
HTML Named Entity ¨
CSS Escape \0000A8
JavaScript (ES6) \u00A8
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u00A8
JSON Escape \u00A8
Python \u00A8
PHP "\u{A8}"
Java "\u00A8"
C / C++ "\u00A8"
Rust '\u{a8}'
URL Percent-Encoded %C2%A8

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <compat> 0020 0308 compat
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<compat>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+00A8 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
¨
Context: A ¨ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
¨
Context: A ¨ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
¨
Context: A ¨ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ¨ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name DIAERESIS

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+00A8

Related Characters & Collections

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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's DIAERESIS symbol library.
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