Ampersand vs Latin Letter Lateral Click
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Property Comparison
| Property | & 0026 | ǁ 01C1 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Ampersand | Latin Letter Lateral Click |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Latin Extended-B |
| Script | Zyyy | Latn |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Bidirectional | ON | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0026 | 01C1 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0026 | U+01C1 |
| HTML Decimal | & | ǁ |
| HTML Hex | & | ǁ |
| CSS | \0026 | \01C1 |
| JavaScript | \u{26} | \u{1C1} |
| Python | \u0026 | \u01c1 |
| UTF-8 | 26 | c7 81 |
How to Distinguish
Both Ampersand and Latin Letter Lateral Click 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.