Symbol For Start Of Text vs Upwards White Arrow
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2402 | 21E7 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2402 | U+21E7 |
| HTML Decimal | ␂ | ⇧ |
| HTML Hex | ␂ | ⇧ |
| CSS | \2402 | \21E7 |
| JavaScript | \u{2402} | \u{21E7} |
| Python | \u2402 | \u21e7 |
| UTF-8 | e2 90 82 | e2 87 a7 |
How to Distinguish
Both Symbol For Start Of Text and Upwards White Arrow 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.