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Glyph for U+2066
Source: Noto Sans

U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate

U+2066 was added to Unicode in version 6.3 (2013). 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 Left To Right Isolate and is not mirrored. In text U+2066 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 Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). It generally involves text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction in each row.

Many computer programs fail to display bidirectional text correctly. For example, this page is mostly LTR English script, and here is the RTL Hebrew name Sarah: שרה, spelled sin (ש) on the right, resh (ר) in the middle, and heh (ה) on the left.

Some so-called right-to-left scripts such as the Persian script and Arabic are mostly, but not exclusively, right-to-left—mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. That also happens if text from a left-to-right language such as English is embedded in them; or vice versa, if Arabic is embedded in a left-to-right script such as English.

Representations

System Representation
8294
UTF-8 E2 81 A6
UTF-16 20 66
UTF-32 00 00 20 66
URL-Quoted %E2%81%A6
HTML hex reference ⁦
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⁦
abbreviation LRI

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 6.3 (2013)
Unicode Name LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE
Unicode 1 Name
Block General Punctuation
General Category Format
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Left To Right Isolate
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Case Folding Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
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+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
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+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Combining Mark
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2066 Left-To-Right Isolate
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R