Ampersand vs Latin Capital Ligature Ij
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Property Comparison
| Property | & 0026 | IJ 0132 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Ampersand | Latin Capital Ligature Ij |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Latin Extended-A |
| Script | Zyyy | Latn |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Uppercase Letter (Lu) |
| Bidirectional | ON | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0026 | 0132 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0026 | U+0132 |
| HTML Decimal | & | IJ |
| HTML Hex | & | IJ |
| CSS | \0026 | \0132 |
| JavaScript | \u{26} | \u{132} |
| Python | \u0026 | \u0132 |
| UTF-8 | 26 | c4 b2 |
How to Distinguish
Both Ampersand and Latin Capital Ligature Ij 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.