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Glyph for U+202C
Source: Noto Sans

U+202C Pop Directional Formatting

U+202C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Format and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it clears the effect of preceding direction markers. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+202C prohibits a line break before it.

See an example use of this character in Wikimedia’s internationalization library “banana i18n”.

Representations

System Representation
8236
UTF-8 E2 80 AC
UTF-16 20 2C
UTF-32 00 00 20 2C
URL-Quoted %E2%80%AC
HTML hex reference ‬
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ‬
abbreviation PDF
Adobe Glyph List afii61573

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) General Punctuation
General Category (gc) Format
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Pop Directional Format
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Control
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Format
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Format
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Transparent
Line Break (lb) Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R