Digit Eight vs Latin Capital Ligature Ij
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Property Comparison
| Property | 8 0038 | IJ 0132 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Digit Eight | Latin Capital Ligature Ij |
| 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 | 0132 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0038 | U+0132 |
| HTML Decimal | 8 | IJ |
| HTML Hex | 8 | IJ |
| CSS | \0038 | \0132 |
| JavaScript | \u{38} | \u{132} |
| Python | \u0038 | \u0132 |
| UTF-8 | 38 | c4 b2 |
How to Distinguish
Both Digit Eight and Latin Capital Ligature Ij 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.