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Caret vs Right-To-Left Override

Caret
2038
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Right-To-Left Override
202E
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Property Comparison

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

Encoding Comparison

Format 2038 202E
Unicode U+2038 U+202E
HTML Decimal ‸ ‮
HTML Hex ‸ ‮
CSS \2038 \202E
JavaScript \u{2038} \u{202E}
Python \u2038 \u202e
UTF-8 e2 80 b8 e2 80 ae

How to Distinguish

Both Caret and Right-To-Left Override 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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