U+202E "" Right-to-Left Override Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+202E "" Right-to-Left Override is a formatting code that forces any subsequent text to be displayed from right to left, overriding the default bidirectional behavior of the script. This character is part of Unicode's bidirectional text control set and is often used in digital contexts to create visual confusion or spoofing, such as making a file name like "fdp.exe" appear as "exe.pdf" when viewed in a file directory. While it has legitimate applications for displaying mixed-script languages correctly, its misuse in phishing attacks or malicious code has led many web platforms and text processors to filter or disable its effect for security reasons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+202E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Right-to-Left Override |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left Override |
| Bidirectional Control | Yes |
| Alias | RLO (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ‮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ‮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x202E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000202E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u202e |