Left Square Bracket With Double Stroke vs Middle Dot
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | ⹗ 2E57 | · 00B7 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Left Square Bracket With Double Stroke | Middle Dot |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Open Punctuation (Ps) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2E57 | 00B7 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2E57 | U+00B7 |
| HTML Decimal | ⹗ | · |
| HTML Hex | ⹗ | · |
| CSS | \2E57 | \00B7 |
| JavaScript | \u{2E57} | \u{B7} |
| Python | \u2e57 | \u00b7 |
| UTF-8 | e2 b9 97 | c2 b7 |
How to Distinguish
Both Left Square Bracket With Double Stroke and Middle Dot are in the Punctuation 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.