MACRON

Codepoint

U+00AF

Literal Character

¯

Name

MACRON

Sketch

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Aliases

overline, APL overbar

Decomposition

<compat>, SPACE (U+0020), COMBINING MACRON (U+0304)

Control Character

no

Block

Latin-1 Supplement

Subblock

Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

UTF-8 byte encoding

c2 af

UTF-16 byte encoding

00 af (big endian)

HTML Entity

¯

Perl string literal

\x{AF}

Comments

• this is a spacing character
• unlike 203E, adjacent instances of this character do not join

See Also

U+02C9: modifier letter macron
U+0304: combining macron
U+0305: combining overline
U+203E: overline
U+FE26: combining conjoining macron

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
￣	FULLWIDTH MACRON	<wide> MACRON (U+00AF)