Latin Small Letter Long S vs Latin Small Letter R With Cedilla
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Property Comparison
| Property | ſ 017F | ŗ 0157 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Latin Small Letter Long S | Latin Small Letter R With Cedilla |
| 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 | 017F | 0157 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+017F | U+0157 |
| HTML Decimal | ſ | ŗ |
| HTML Hex | ſ | ŗ |
| CSS | \017F | \0157 |
| JavaScript | \u{17F} | \u{157} |
| Python | \u017f | \u0157 |
| UTF-8 | c5 bf | c5 97 |
How to Distinguish
Both Latin Small Letter Long S and Latin Small Letter R With Cedilla 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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