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U+202C PDF

POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING

Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
Code Point U+202C
Decimal Value 8236
General Category Format (Cf) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 AC
UTF-16 Code Unit 202C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000202C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 2C LE: 2C 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 2C LE: 2C 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ‬
HTML Hexadecimal ‬
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00202C
JavaScript (ES6) \u202C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u202C
JSON Escape \u202C
Python \u202C
PHP "\u{202C}"
Java "\u202C"
C / C++ "\u202C"
Rust '\u{202c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%AC

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class PDFPDF
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+202C represents a PDF (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.

Names & Aliases

Official Name POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+202C

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