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LRO
U+202D · LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE

Left-To-Right Override

  • CodepointU+202D
  • NameLEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
  • Decimal8237
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classLRO — Left-to-Right Override
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+202D is LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE, an invisible format character in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is invisible. It changes how surrounding text is processed or displayed but has no glyph of its own, which makes it easy to paste by accident.

It is a default-ignorable codepoint: when a font or renderer does not support it, it should be displayed as nothing at all rather than as a missing-glyph box.

Common abbreviation: LRO.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 AD3 bytes
UTF-16202D1 code unit
UTF-320000202D4 bytes
HTML decimal‭
HTML hex‭
CSS\202Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u202D
JSON\u202D
Python\u202D
Python\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE}by name
Java / C#\u202D
C / C++\u202Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{202D}
Go\u202D
Ruby\u202D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8237)
URL-encoded%E2%80%ADpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2027‧Hyphenation Point U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right Embedding U+202BRLERight-To-Left Embedding U+202CPDFPop Directional Formatting U+202ERLORight-To-Left Override U+202FNNBSPNarrow No-Break Space U+2030‰Per Mille Sign U+2031‱Per Ten Thousand Sign U+2032′Prime U+2033″Double Prime