About Latin Small Letter Long S
Latin Small Letter Long S is the Unicode character ſ at codepoint U+017F in the Latin Extended-A block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
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How to Use Latin Small Letter Long S
To use the Latin Small Letter Long S symbol (ſ) in HTML, insert the
entity ſ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ſ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\17F';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u017F' evaluates to ſ. In Python source, write '\u017F'.
The character encodes to C5 BF as UTF-8 bytes and 017F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 383.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.