Unicode Character "–" (U+0096)

The character – (Start Of Guarded Area) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0096. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as –.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Start Of Guarded Area
Unicode Codepoint U+0096
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Boundary Neutral (BN)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Control
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0096 Conversion

HTML (decimal) –
HTML (hex) –
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %C2%96
CSS \000096
JavaScript, JSON \u0096
C, C++, Java \u0096
Python \u0096
Rust \u{0096}
Ruby \u0096

How to type "–"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 9 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 9 6. Release Alt.

Preview

  • –
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • –
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • –
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0x96
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0096
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000096

References