Feminine Ordinal Indicator vs Soft Hyphen
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Property Comparison
| Property | ª 00AA | 00AD |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Feminine Ordinal Indicator | Soft Hyphen |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Script | Latn | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Letter (Lo) | Format (Cf) |
| Bidirectional | L | BN |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 00AA | 00AD |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+00AA | U+00AD |
| HTML Decimal | ª | ­ |
| HTML Hex | ª | ­ |
| CSS | \00AA | \00AD |
| JavaScript | \u{AA} | \u{AD} |
| Python | \u00aa | \u00ad |
| UTF-8 | c2 aa | c2 ad |
How to Distinguish
Both Feminine Ordinal Indicator and Soft Hyphen belong to the Latin Extended category and the Latin-1 Supplement block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
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