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BEL
U+0007 · ALERT

Alert

  • CodepointU+0007
  • NameALERT
  • Decimal7
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCc — Control
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0007 is ALERT, a control character in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a control code inherited from ASCII. Unicode gives control codes no formal name, only the aliases ALERT, BEL.

Its visible stand-in is U+2407 ␇ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8071 byte
UTF-1600071 code unit
UTF-32000000074 bytes
CSS\7in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0007
JSON\u0007
Python\u0007
Python\N{ALERT}by name
Java / C#\u0007
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{7}
Go\u0007
Ruby\u0007
Escape sequence\aC, Python
URL-encoded%07percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0001SOHStart of Heading U+0002STXStart of Text U+0003ETXEnd of Text U+0004EOTEnd of Transmission U+0005ENQEnquiry U+0006ACKAcknowledge U+0008BSBackspace U+0009HTCharacter Tabulation U+000ALFLine Feed U+000BVTLine Tabulation U+000CFFForm Feed U+000DCRCarriage Return