Unicode Basic Latin block

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The Unicode Basic Latin block is the foundational set of 128 characters in Unicode that corresponds to the standard ASCII repertoire, including basic letters, digits, and common punctuation used in English and many other languages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
alsoKnownAs ASCII block
Basic Latin
blockNameInUnicodeStandard Basic Latin
compatibility identical code positions to ASCII
contains Arabic numerals 0–9
C0 control characters
Latin capital letters A–Z
Latin small letters a–z
ampersand U+0026
apostrophe U+0027
asterisk U+002A
backslash U+005C
basic Latin letters
carriage return character U+000D
circumflex accent U+005E
colon U+003A
comma U+002C
commercial at U+0040
common punctuation characters
delete character U+007F
dollar sign U+0024
equals sign U+003D
exclamation mark U+0021
full stop U+002E
grave accent U+0060
greater-than sign U+003E
hyphen-minus U+002D
left curly bracket U+007B
left parenthesis U+0028
left square bracket U+005B
less-than sign U+003C
line feed character U+000A
low line U+005F
number sign U+0023
percent sign U+0025
plus sign U+002B
question mark U+003F
quotation mark U+0022
right curly bracket U+007D
right parenthesis U+0029
right square bracket U+005D
semicolon U+003B
solidus U+002F
space character U+0020
tab character U+0009
tilde U+007E
vertical line U+007C
correspondsTo ASCII
definedBy The Unicode Standard NERFINISHED
endCodePoint U+007F
formsBasisFor UTF-8 encoding structure
most modern character encodings
hasPlane Basic Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED
introducedInStandard Unicode 1.0 NERFINISHED
numberOfCodePoints 128
planeNumber 0
primaryLanguageUsage English
scriptDirection left-to-right
startCodePoint U+0000
unicodeBlockRange U+0000–U+007F
usedBy many modern languages

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

ISO 646 influenced Unicode Basic Latin block