DEGREE SIGN character

DEGREE SIGN
U+00B0
176
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So (Other Symbol)
ET (European Number Terminator)
N
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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DEGREE SIGN is a symbol of other type from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of DEGREE SIGN is European Number Terminator (Weak). It belongs to the punctuation marks used with numbers, like the degree sign or currency symbols. Treated like digits when they occur as part of a number and like punctuation the rest of the time..

The European Terminator (ET) bidi class includes characters such as currency symbols ($, €, £) and other punctuation marks that typically appear alongside European numbers. ET characters are treated neutrally and ensure that symbols associated with numbers are displayed correctly in bidirectional text.

Other Symbol (So) refers to a broad category of symbols that do not fit into the mathematical, currency, or modifier symbol categories. This includes a wide range of characters used in various contexts, such as zodiac signs, playing card symbols, and geometric shapes.

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..