# Shared Components ## Character Information

If you are using an Okapi Tool after the M9 release, you should be using the wiki online help:
http://www.opentag.com/okapi/wiki/index.php?title=Character_Information

This dialog box allows you to get various information about any Unicode character.

Code point -- Enter the hexadecimal value of the Unicode character to lookup.

Character -- Enter or paste the Unicode character to lookup.

Character type -- Displays the general Unicode category of the character selected. For example '`&`' has for type "Po : OTHER_PUNCTUATION".

Numeric value -- Displays the numeric value represented by the selected character. For example, the character U+216C (the Roman numeral fifty) will show the numeric value 50. if the selected character does not correspond to a given value, a value -1 is displayed.

Java isWhitespace() -- Indicates whether the selected character is a Java white space or not. A Java white space character is it satisfies one of the following criteria:

- It is a Unicode space character (SPACE_SEPARATOR, LINE_SEPARATOR, or PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR) but is not also a non-breaking space (U+00A0, U+2007, U+202F).
- It is U+0009, or U+000A, or U+000B, or U+000C, or U+000D, or U+001C, or U+001D, or U+001E, or U+001F.

Is Unicode white space -- Indicates whether the selected character is a Unicode white space. A Unicode character is a character that is in one of the following categories: SPACE_SEPARATOR, LINE_SEPARATOR, PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR.