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Latin Capital Letter Ae vs Macron

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Latin Capital Letter Ae
00C6
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Macron
00AF
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Property Comparison

Property Æ 00C6 ¯ 00AF
Name Latin Capital Letter Ae Macron
Category Latin Extended Latin Extended
Block Latin-1 Supplement Latin-1 Supplement
Script Latn Zyyy
General Category Uppercase Letter (Lu) Modifier Symbol (Sk)
Bidirectional L ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 00C6 00AF
Unicode U+00C6 U+00AF
HTML Decimal Æ ¯
HTML Hex Æ ¯
CSS \00C6 \00AF
JavaScript \u{C6} \u{AF}
Python \u00c6 \u00af
UTF-8 c3 86 c2 af

How to Distinguish

Both Latin Capital Letter Ae and Macron belong to the Latin Extended category and the Latin-1 Supplement 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.

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