CEDILLA character

CEDILLA
U+00B8
184
¸
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SPACING CEDILLA
Sk (Modifier Symbol)
ON (Other Neutrals)
N
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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CEDILLA is a non-letterlike modifier symbol from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of CEDILLA is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Modifier Symbol (Sk) refers to small characters that modify the meaning of other characters. These symbols are often used in phonetic notations, linguistic texts, and various other contexts to indicate alterations in sound or meaning.

This character belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block. The Latin-1 Supplement block extends the Basic Latin block by adding additional characters used in Western European languages. This includes letters with diacritics (such as é, ñ, and ö), punctuation marks, and symbols like the Euro sign (€). This block is part of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding standard, which was widely used before the adoption of Unicode. These characters are essential for representing languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, ensuring proper orthography and typographic conventions..