This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Full Stop. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+2024 allows only line breaks, if an additional space character is present. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A leader in typography is a series of characters, usually lines of dots or dashes, that are used as a visual aid to connect items on a page that might be separated by considerable horizontal distance. For example, dot leaders are often used in tables of contents to connect section headings with the page numbers on which those sections begin.
Most word processing software includes a feature for the automatic generation of dot leaders.
This word is pronounced LEED-ər, like the everyday word "leader" (person who leads), unlike the typographical term leading ( LED-ing), which refers to the use of the metal lead.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8228
UTF-8
E2 80 A4
UTF-16
20 24
UTF-32
00 00 20 24
URL-Quoted
%E2%80%A4
HTML hex reference
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Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
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Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 A6 33
LATEX
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Adobe Glyph List
onedotenleader
RFC 5137
\u'2024'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2024
C and C++
\u2024
C#
\u2024
CSS
\002024
Excel
=UNICHAR(8228)
Go
\u2024
JavaScript
\u2024
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2024}
JSON
\u2024
Java
\u2024
Lua
\u{2024}
Matlab
char(8228)
Perl
"\x{2024}"
PHP
\u{2024}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2024'
PowerShell
`u{2024}
Python
\u2024
Ruby
\u{2024}
Rust
\u{2024}
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