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Number Forms is a
Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing
Unicode compatibility characters In Unicode and the Universal Character Set, UCS, a compatibility character is a character that is encoded solely to maintain Round-trip format conversion, round-trip convertibility with other, often older, standards. As the Unicode Glossary says: ...
that have specific meaning as
number A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The most basic examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Numbers can be represented in language with number words. More universally, individual numbers can ...
s, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and
Roman numerals Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, eac ...
. In addition to the characters in the Number Forms block, three fractions (¼, ½, and ¾) were inherited from
ISO-8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology—8-bit computing, 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character (computing), character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character enc ...
, which was incorporated whole as the
Latin-1 Supplement The Latin-1 Supplement (also called C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement) is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) – FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. T ...
block.


List of characters


Block


History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Number Forms block:


See also

* Latin script in Unicode * Unicode symbols


References

{{Mathematical symbols notation language Symbols Unicode Unicode blocks