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Left-To-Right Embedding vs Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically

Left-To-Right Embedding
202A
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Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
2051
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Property Comparison

Property ‪ 202A ⁑ 2051
Name Left-To-Right Embedding Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Format (Cf) Other Punctuation (Po)
Bidirectional LRE ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 202A 2051
Unicode U+202A U+2051
HTML Decimal ‪ ⁑
HTML Hex ‪ ⁑
CSS \202A \2051
JavaScript \u{202A} \u{2051}
Python \u202a \u2051
UTF-8 e2 80 aa e2 81 91

How to Distinguish

Both Left-To-Right Embedding and Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.

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

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