ASCII Character -
Hyphen-minusThe hyphen-minus sign, -, is the original ASCII version of the minus sign, which doubles as a hyphen. It is usually shorter in length than the plus sign and often at a different height to the plus-sign's cross bar. It can be used as a substitute for the true minus sign when the character set is limited to ASCII. Most programming languages and other computer readable languages do this, since ASCII is generally available as a subset of most character encodings.
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ASCII Code for -
These are the code points for hyphen-minus in various character setsUnicode for -
The character for hyphen-minus is mapped in Unicode as U+002D| Unicode | U+002D | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 45 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u002d | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2D | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101101 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 00101101 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x002D | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000002D | |
HTML Entities for -
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the hyphen-minus in HTML| HTML Number | - | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | - |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | - | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =2D |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u002D" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \002D | |
| JavaScript | "\u002D" | |
| Perl | \x{002D} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u002D" | |
| Python 3 | \u002D | |
| Ruby | \u{002D} |