Return Symbol vs Symbol For Escape
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 23CE | 241B |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+23CE | U+241B |
| HTML Decimal | ⏎ | ␛ |
| HTML Hex | ⏎ | ␛ |
| CSS | \23CE | \241B |
| JavaScript | \u{23CE} | \u{241B} |
| Python | \u23ce | \u241b |
| UTF-8 | e2 8f 8e | e2 90 9b |
How to Distinguish
Both Return Symbol and Symbol For Escape are in the Technical 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.