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RLO
U+202E · RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE

Right-To-Left Override

  • CodepointU+202E
  • NameRIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
  • Decimal8238
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classRLO — Right-to-Left Override
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+202E is RIGHT-TO-LEFT 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: RLO.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 AE3 bytes
UTF-16202E1 code unit
UTF-320000202E4 bytes
HTML decimal‮
HTML hex‮
CSS\202Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u202E
JSON\u202E
Python\u202E
Python\N{RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE}by name
Java / C#\u202E
C / C++\u202Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{202E}
Go\u202E
Ruby\u202E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8238)
URL-encoded%E2%80%AEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right Embedding U+202BRLERight-To-Left Embedding U+202CPDFPop Directional Formatting U+202DLROLeft-To-Right Override U+202FNNBSPNarrow No-Break Space U+2030‰Per Mille Sign U+2031‱Per Ten Thousand Sign U+2032′Prime U+2033″Double Prime U+2034‴Triple Prime