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Ampersand vs Latin Capital Letter Schwa

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Ampersand
0026
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Latin Capital Letter Schwa
018F
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Property Comparison

Property & 0026 Ə 018F
Name Ampersand Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Category Latin Extended Latin Extended
Block Basic Latin Latin Extended-B
Script Zyyy Latn
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Bidirectional ON L

Encoding Comparison

Format 0026 018F
Unicode U+0026 U+018F
HTML Decimal & Ə
HTML Hex & Ə
CSS \0026 \018F
JavaScript \u{26} \u{18F}
Python \u0026 \u018f
UTF-8 26 c6 8f

How to Distinguish

Both Ampersand and Latin Capital Letter Schwa are in the Latin Extended category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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