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Technical information

Symbol	—
Name	End of guarded area
Unicode number	U+0097
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 1. C1 controls

Description

The Unicode character —, or U+0097, is known as the "End of Guarded Area". It falls under the "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" block and the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. The "End of Guarded Area" character is part of the set of control characters in the Unicode standard, which were originally designed for tasks such as controlling hardware devices or formatting text. Specifically, the "End of Guarded Area" character is intended to signal the end of a protected or restricted area in a text, but its usage is now largely obsolete with modern systems.

Encoding

HTML Entity
HTML Entity (hex)
URL Escape Code	%26%23151%3B
UTF-8 (hex)	0x26 0x23 0x31 0x35 0x31 0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)	1001100010001100110001001101010011000100111011
UTF-16	0x0097
UTF-32	0x00000097

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u0097"
CSS Code	\0097
JavaScript	"\u0097"
Perl	\x{0097}
Python 2	u"\u0097"
Python 3	\u0097
Ruby	\u{0097}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this — in sentence and in bold like this — and in italic like this —.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

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input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#151;</span>

span {
    content: "\0097";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system

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Apple Color Emoji

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Arial

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BlinkMacSystemFont

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Courier New

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Georgia

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Droid Sans

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Helvetica

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Noto Sans

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Oxygen

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Roboto

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"Segoe UI"

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sans-serif

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Segoe UI Emoji

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Segoe UI Symbol

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system-ui

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Times New Roman

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Ubuntu

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Verdana

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