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Left Double Wiggly Fence vs Plus-Minus Sign

Left Double Wiggly Fence
29DA
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±
Plus-Minus Sign
00B1
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⧚ 29DA ± 00B1
Name Left Double Wiggly Fence Plus-Minus Sign
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 29DA 00B1
Unicode U+29DA U+00B1
HTML Decimal ⧚ ±
HTML Hex ⧚ ±
CSS \29DA \00B1
JavaScript \u{29DA} \u{B1}
Python \u29da \u00b1
UTF-8 e2 a7 9a c2 b1

How to Distinguish

Both Left Double Wiggly Fence and Plus-Minus Sign are in the Math Symbols category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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