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Left-To-Right Override vs Middle Dot

Left-To-Right Override
202D
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Middle Dot
00B7
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Property Comparison

Property ‭ 202D · 00B7
Name Left-To-Right Override Middle Dot
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Format (Cf) Other Punctuation (Po)
Bidirectional LRO ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 202D 00B7
Unicode U+202D U+00B7
HTML Decimal ‭ ·
HTML Hex ‭ ·
CSS \202D \00B7
JavaScript \u{202D} \u{B7}
Python \u202d \u00b7
UTF-8 e2 80 ad c2 b7

How to Distinguish

Both Left-To-Right Override 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.

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