¯
ASCII Character ¯
Spacing macron - overlineA macron is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar (¯) placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) "long", since it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for ¯
These are the code points for spacing macron - overline in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ISO-8859-1 | 175 | AF |
| ISO-8859-4 | 175 | AF |
| ISO-8859-8 | 175 | AF |
| ISO-8859-9 | 175 | AF |
| Windows-1252 | 175 | AF |
| Windows-1254 | 175 | AF |
| Windows-1255 | 175 | AF |
| Windows-1256 | 175 | AF |
| Windows-1257 | 157 | 9D |
| Windows-1258 | 175 | AF |
Unicode for ¯
The character for spacing macron - overline is mapped in Unicode as U+00AF| Unicode | U+00AF | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 175 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u00af | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xAF | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010101111 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 1100001010101111 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x00AF | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000AF | |
HTML Entities for ¯
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the spacing macron - overline in HTML| HTML Number | ¯ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ¯ | |
| HTML Entity | ¯ ‾ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %C2%AF | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =C2=AF |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00AF" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \00AF | |
| JavaScript | "\u00AF" | |
| Perl | \x{00AF} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00AF" | |
| Python 3 | \u00AF | |
| Ruby | \u{00AF} |