Middle Dot vs Presentation Form For Vertical Em Dash
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Property Comparison
| Property | · 00B7 | ︱ FE31 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Middle Dot | Presentation Form For Vertical Em Dash |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Dash Punctuation (Pd) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 00B7 | FE31 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+00B7 | U+FE31 |
| HTML Decimal | · | ︱ |
| HTML Hex | · | ︱ |
| CSS | \00B7 | \FE31 |
| JavaScript | \u{B7} | \u{FE31} |
| Python | \u00b7 | \ufe31 |
| UTF-8 | c2 b7 | ef b8 b1 |
How to Distinguish
Both Middle Dot and Presentation Form For Vertical Em Dash 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.