Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot vs Latin Small Letter Y With Circumflex
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Property Comparison
| Property | ŀ 0140 | ŷ 0177 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot | Latin Small Letter Y With Circumflex |
| 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 | 0140 | 0177 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0140 | U+0177 |
| HTML Decimal | ŀ | ŷ |
| HTML Hex | ŀ | ŷ |
| CSS | \0140 | \0177 |
| JavaScript | \u{140} | \u{177} |
| Python | \u0140 | \u0177 |
| UTF-8 | c5 80 | c5 b7 |
How to Distinguish
Both Latin Small Letter L With Middle Dot and Latin Small Letter Y With Circumflex 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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