Latin Small Letter A With Macron vs Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot
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Property Comparison
| Property | ā 0101 | ŀ 0140 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Latin Small Letter A With Macron | Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Latin Extended-A | Latin Extended-A |
| Script | Latn | Latn |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter (Ll) | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Bidirectional | L | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0101 | 0140 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0101 | U+0140 |
| HTML Decimal | ā | ŀ |
| HTML Hex | ā | ŀ |
| CSS | \0101 | \0140 |
| JavaScript | \u{101} | \u{140} |
| Python | \u0101 | \u0140 |
| UTF-8 | c4 81 | c5 80 |
How to Distinguish
Both Latin Small Letter A With Macron 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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