Basic Latin
E3675
Basic Latin is the foundational Unicode block that encodes the standard English letters, digits, and common punctuation used in most Western text.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode block
→
character set → |
| blockAlias |
ASCII
→
C0 Controls and Basic Latin (legacy combined name context) → |
| blockNameInUnicodeStandard |
Basic Latin
→
|
| characterCount |
128
→
|
| codePoints0000To001F |
control characters
→
|
| codePoints0020To007E |
printable characters
→
|
| compatibleWith |
7-bit ASCII
→
|
| containsCharacter |
U+0020 SPACE
→
U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK → U+002B PLUS SIGN → U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS → U+002E FULL STOP → U+0030 DIGIT ZERO → U+0039 DIGIT NINE → U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A → U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z → U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A → U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z → |
| containsCharacterCategory |
Arabic numerals
→
control characters → format characters → lowercase Latin letters → mathematical symbols → punctuation marks → uppercase Latin letters → |
| containsCharacterSubset |
ASCII digits 0–9
→
ASCII punctuation → DEL control character → English alphabet → NULL control character → carriage return → line feed → space character → tab character → |
| containsScript |
Latin
→
|
| encodingBasisFor |
ASCII
→
ISO 646 → UTF-8 single-byte range → many Western text encodings → |
| endCodePoint |
U+007F
→
|
| introducedInStandard |
Unicode 1.0
→
|
| lastPrintableCharacter |
U+007E TILDE
→
|
| plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane
→
|
| startCodePoint |
U+0000
→
|
| unicodeBlockRange |
U+0000–U+007F
→
|
| usedForLanguage |
English
→
many Western European languages → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Basic Latin
→
|
blockNameInUnicodeStandard |
|
Latin alphabet
→
|
UnicodeBlock |