Digit Four vs Full Stop
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Property Comparison
| Property | 4 0034 | . 002E |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Digit Four | Full Stop |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Basic Latin |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Decimal Number (Nd) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | EN | CS |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0034 | 002E |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0034 | U+002E |
| HTML Decimal | 4 | . |
| HTML Hex | 4 | . |
| CSS | \0034 | \002E |
| JavaScript | \u{34} | \u{2E} |
| Python | \u0034 | \u002e |
| UTF-8 | 34 | 2e |
How to Distinguish
Both Digit Four and Full Stop belong to the Latin Extended category and the Basic Latin 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.