Alternative Key Symbol vs Return Symbol
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2387 | 23CE |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2387 | U+23CE |
| HTML Decimal | ⎇ | ⏎ |
| HTML Hex | ⎇ | ⏎ |
| CSS | \2387 | \23CE |
| JavaScript | \u{2387} | \u{23CE} |
| Python | \u2387 | \u23ce |
| UTF-8 | e2 8e 87 | e2 8f 8e |
How to Distinguish
Both Alternative Key Symbol and Return Symbol belong to the Technical category and the Miscellaneous Technical block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.