Latin Capital Letter Ae vs Macron
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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.