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Caret vs Right-To-Left Embedding

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

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

Encoding Comparison

Format 2038 202B
Unicode U+2038 U+202B
HTML Decimal ‸ ‫
HTML Hex ‸ ‫
CSS \2038 \202B
JavaScript \u{2038} \u{202B}
Python \u2038 \u202b
UTF-8 e2 80 b8 e2 80 ab

How to Distinguish

Both Caret and Right-To-Left 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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