PERCENT SIGN character

PERCENT SIGN
U+0025
37
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Po (Other Puntuation)
ET (European Number Terminator)
N
0
Basic Latin
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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PERCENT SIGN is a punctuation mark of other type from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of PERCENT 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 Punctuation (Po) refers to all other punctuation marks that do not fit into the connector, dash, open, close, initial, or final categories. This includes characters like the period, comma, colon, and various other symbols used to structure sentences and phrases.

This character belongs to the Basic Latin block. The Basic Latin block, also known as the ASCII block, is foundational in computing and text processing. It includes the standard English alphabet (both uppercase and lowercase), Arabic numerals (0-9), and essential punctuation marks like periods, commas, and parentheses. ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, was developed in the 1960s and remains a cornerstone of text encoding. This block is indispensable for programming, data interchange, and everyday digital communication, forming the basis for many other Unicode blocks..