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Left Vertical Box Line vs Metrical Two Shorts Joined

Left Vertical Box Line
23B8
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Metrical Two Shorts Joined
23D6
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Property Comparison

Property ⎸ 23B8 ⏖ 23D6
Name Left Vertical Box Line Metrical Two Shorts Joined
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 23B8 23D6
Unicode U+23B8 U+23D6
HTML Decimal ⎸ ⏖
HTML Hex ⎸ ⏖
CSS \23B8 \23D6
JavaScript \u{23B8} \u{23D6}
Python \u23b8 \u23d6
UTF-8 e2 8e b8 e2 8f 96

How to Distinguish

Both Left Vertical Box Line and Metrical Two Shorts Joined belong to the Technical category and the Miscellaneous Technical block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.

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