Copyright Sign vs Section Sign
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Property Comparison
| Property | © 00A9 | § 00A7 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Copyright Sign | Section Sign |
| Category | Legal & Copyright | Legal & Copyright |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 00A9 | 00A7 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+00A9 | U+00A7 |
| HTML Decimal | © | § |
| HTML Hex | © | § |
| CSS | \00A9 | \00A7 |
| JavaScript | \u{A9} | \u{A7} |
| Python | \u00a9 | \u00a7 |
| UTF-8 | c2 a9 | c2 a7 |
How to Distinguish
Both Copyright Sign and Section Sign belong to the Legal & Copyright category and the Latin-1 Supplement block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
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charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.