U015E

U015E is a Unicode character that represents the Latin letter "S" with a circumflex accent. The Unicode code point for this character is U+015E. It is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block in the Unicode standard. The character is used in various languages, including Turkish, where it represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "sh" sound in English. In Turkish, this character is often used to transliterate foreign words or names that contain the "ş" sound. For example, the name "Schubert" might be transliterated as "Şubert" in Turkish, using the U015E character. The character is also used in other languages, such as French and Romanian, to represent the "ș" sound. In these languages, the character is often used in proper nouns or loanwords. The U015E character is encoded in various character sets, including ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252. It is also supported in most modern fonts and text editors.