Left Vertical Box Line vs Smile
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Encoding Comparison
| Format | 23B8 | 2323 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+23B8 | U+2323 |
| HTML Decimal | ⎸ | ⌣ |
| HTML Hex | ⎸ | ⌣ |
| CSS | \23B8 | \2323 |
| JavaScript | \u{23B8} | \u{2323} |
| Python | \u23b8 | \u2323 |
| UTF-8 | e2 8e b8 | e2 8c a3 |
How to Distinguish
Both Left Vertical Box Line and Smile belong to the Technical category and the Miscellaneous Technical 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.