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Glyph for U+202E
Source: Noto Sans

U+202E Right-To-Left Override

U+202E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Right To Left Override and is not mirrored. In text U+202E behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Format for sentence and Format for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Control.

The XKCD comic #1137 references this code point.

Representations

System Representation
8238
UTF-8 E2 80 AE
UTF-16 20 2E
UTF-32 00 00 20 2E
URL-Quoted %E2%80%AE
HTML hex reference ‮
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ‮
abbreviation RLO
Adobe Glyph List afii61575

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
Unicode 1 Name
Block General Punctuation
General Category Format
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Right To Left Override
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Case Folding Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Grapheme Cluster Break Control
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Format
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Format
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+202E Right-To-Left Override
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R