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Right-To-Left Embedding vs Swung Dash

Right-To-Left Embedding
202B
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Swung Dash
2053
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Property Comparison

Property ‫ 202B ⁓ 2053
Name Right-To-Left Embedding Swung Dash
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Format (Cf) Other Punctuation (Po)
Bidirectional RLE ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 202B 2053
Unicode U+202B U+2053
HTML Decimal ‫ ⁓
HTML Hex ‫ ⁓
CSS \202B \2053
JavaScript \u{202B} \u{2053}
Python \u202b \u2053
UTF-8 e2 80 ab e2 81 93

How to Distinguish

Both Right-To-Left Embedding and Swung Dash belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation 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.

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