Double Oblique Hyphen vs Right Dotted Substitution Bracket
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Property Comparison
| Property | ⸗ 2E17 | ⸅ 2E05 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Double Oblique Hyphen | Right Dotted Substitution Bracket |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation | Supplemental Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation (Pd) | Final Punctuation (Pf) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2E17 | 2E05 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2E17 | U+2E05 |
| HTML Decimal | ⸗ | ⸅ |
| HTML Hex | ⸗ | ⸅ |
| CSS | \2E17 | \2E05 |
| JavaScript | \u{2E17} | \u{2E05} |
| Python | \u2e17 | \u2e05 |
| UTF-8 | e2 b8 97 | e2 b8 85 |
How to Distinguish
Both Double Oblique Hyphen and Right Dotted Substitution Bracket belong to the Punctuation category and the Supplemental Punctuation block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
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