U+0095 "MW" MESSAGE WAITING Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
MW
U+0095 "MW" MESSAGE WAITING is a control character originally included in the C1 control code set for use in telecommunication and terminal systems, specifically to indicate that a message, such as a voicemail or text, is waiting for the user. It is not a visible glyph or a printable symbol but a control code that would be interpreted by software or hardware to trigger a notification or update a status indicator. This character is part of the legacy control codes defined in ISO/IEC 6429 and is now largely obsolete in modern computing, though it may still appear in certain data streams or historical character encoding contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0095 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Message Waiting |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
| Alias | MESSAGE WAITING (control) MW (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | • |
| HTML Hex Encoding | • |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0095 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000095 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0095 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Control |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |