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.

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Label Occurrences
Basic Latin canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
character set
blockAlias ASCII
C0 Controls and Basic Latin (legacy combined name context)
blockNameInUnicodeStandard Basic Latin self-link
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
ASCII
surface form: ISO 646

UTF-8 single-byte range
many Western text encodings
endCodePoint U+007F
introducedInStandard Unicode
surface form: 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

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Latin alphabet UnicodeBlock Basic Latin
Basic Latin blockNameInUnicodeStandard Basic Latin self-link