Digit Eight vs Latin Capital Letter A With Macron
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Property Comparison
| Property | 8 0038 | Ā 0100 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Digit Eight | Latin Capital Letter A With Macron |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Latin Extended-A |
| Script | Zyyy | Latn |
| General Category | Decimal Number (Nd) | Uppercase Letter (Lu) |
| Bidirectional | EN | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0038 | 0100 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0038 | U+0100 |
| HTML Decimal | 8 | Ā |
| HTML Hex | 8 | Ā |
| CSS | \0038 | \0100 |
| JavaScript | \u{38} | \u{100} |
| Python | \u0038 | \u0100 |
| UTF-8 | 38 | c4 80 |
How to Distinguish
Both Digit Eight and Latin Capital Letter A With Macron are in the Latin Extended category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.