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Caret vs Left-To-Right Embedding

Caret
2038
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Left-To-Right Embedding
202A
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Property Comparison

Property ‸ 2038 ‪ 202A
Name Caret Left-To-Right Embedding
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) Format (Cf)
Bidirectional ON LRE

Encoding Comparison

Format 2038 202A
Unicode U+2038 U+202A
HTML Decimal ‸ ‪
HTML Hex ‸ ‪
CSS \2038 \202A
JavaScript \u{2038} \u{202A}
Python \u2038 \u202a
UTF-8 e2 80 b8 e2 80 aa

How to Distinguish

Both Caret and Left-To-Right Embedding belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation 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.

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