LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS character

LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
U+00FF
255
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LATIN SMALL LETTER Y DIAERESIS
Ll (Lowercase Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS is a lowercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Lowercase Letter (Ll) refers to characters that are lowercase in a bicameral script. These include lowercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Lowercase letters are typically used for most of the text in a language that has case distinction.

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..