Asterisk vs Digit Zero
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Property Comparison
| Property | * 002A | 0 0030 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Asterisk | Digit Zero |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Basic Latin |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Decimal Number (Nd) |
| Bidirectional | ON | EN |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 002A | 0030 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+002A | U+0030 |
| HTML Decimal | * | 0 |
| HTML Hex | * | 0 |
| CSS | \002A | \0030 |
| JavaScript | \u{2A} | \u{30} |
| Python | \u002a | \u0030 |
| UTF-8 | 2a | 30 |
How to Distinguish
Both Asterisk and Digit Zero belong to the Latin Extended category and the Basic Latin 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.