Basic Latin (Unicode block)
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The Basic Latin or C0 Controls and Basic Latin Unicode block is the first block of the Unicode standard, and the only block which is encoded in one byte in UTF-8. The block contains all the letters and control codes of the ASCII encoding. It ranges from U+0000 to U+007F, contains 128 characters and includes the C0 controls, ASCII punctuation and symbols, ASCII digits, both the uppercase and lowercase of the English alphabet and a control character.
| Basic Latin or C0 Controls and Basic Latin | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0000..U+007F (128 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Latin (52 characters) Common (76 characters) |
| Major alphabets | English French German Spanish Vietnamese |
| Symbol sets | Arabic numerals Punctuation |
| Assigned | 128 code points 33 Control or Format |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISO/IEC 8859, ISO 646 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 128 (+128) |
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| Note: [1][2] | |
The Basic Latin block was included in its present form from version 1.0.0 of the Unicode Standard, without addition or alteration of the character repertoire.[3] Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was ASCII.[4]