U1E58

U+1E58 is a Unicode code point located in the Latin Extended Additional block, which spans from U+1E00 to U+1EFF. This block contains Latin-script characters used in a variety of orthographies, transliteration systems, and scholarly texts. The character assigned to U+1E58 represents a lowercase Latin letter variant and has a corresponding uppercase form in Unicode.

In text encoding, U+1E58 is represented in UTF-8 by the three-byte sequence E1 B9 98. In UTF-16 it is encoded as the single 16-bit unit 0x1E58, and in UTF-32 it appears as 0x00001E58. Rendering of the character depends on font support; many standard fonts do not include it, while linguistic or specialized Unicode fonts typically provide a glyph for it.

The usage of U+1E58 is primarily found in minority languages, historical documents, linguistic descriptions, and transliteration schemes that extend Latin with additional diacritics or variant forms. Like other Latin Extended Additional letters, it participates in standard Unicode case mappings, enabling uppercase and lowercase transformations within text processing.

For practical purposes, the character is most relevant to researchers, typographers, and software that must support extended Latin scripts. Its presence in a given document signals typographic and orthographic specificity beyond the common Latin alphabet.

See also: Unicode, Latin Extended Additional, Latin script. References: Unicode character database entry for U+1E58.