Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis vs Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot
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Property Comparison
| Property | Ÿ 0178 | ŀ 0140 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis | Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Latin Extended-A | Latin Extended-A |
| Script | Latn | Latn |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter (Lu) | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Bidirectional | L | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0178 | 0140 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0178 | U+0140 |
| HTML Decimal | Ÿ | ŀ |
| HTML Hex | Ÿ | ŀ |
| CSS | \0178 | \0140 |
| JavaScript | \u{178} | \u{140} |
| Python | \u0178 | \u0140 |
| UTF-8 | c5 b8 | c5 80 |
How to Distinguish
Both Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis and Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot belong to the Latin Extended category and the Latin Extended-A block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
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