Unicode Character 'PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN' (U+2318)

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PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN

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PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN

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Unicode Data
Name PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
Block Miscellaneous Technical
Category Symbol, Other [So]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Old name COMMAND KEY
Index entries command key
INTEREST SIGN, PLACE OF
key, command
operating system key (ISO 9995-7)
PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
Comments Formal Alias: command key (1.0)
Formal Alias: operating system key (ISO U+9995-7)
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) ⌘
HTML Entity (hex) ⌘
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +2318
UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x8C 0x98 (e28c98)
UTF-8 (binary) 11100010:10001100:10011000
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2318 (2318)
UTF-16 (decimal) 8,984
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002318 (2318)
UTF-32 (decimal) 8,984
C/C++/Java source code "\u2318"
Python source code u"\u2318"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase()
string.toLowerCase()
Character.UnicodeBlock MISCELLANEOUS_TECHNICAL
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 28
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() No
Character.isLetter() No
Character.isLetterOrDigit() No
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No