U+206A "" Inhibit Symmetric Swapping Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+206A "" Inhibit Symmetric Swapping is an invisible control character from the General Punctuation block, designed for use in bidirectional text to prevent the automatic swapping of paired characters, such as parentheses or brackets, between left to right and right to left contexts. It was intended to allow document authors to maintain the original visual order of these symbols in complex mixed direction layouts, but it was deprecated in later versions of the Unicode Standard and its use is discouraged because modern bidirectional algorithms and other explicit formatting characters provide more effective means for handling such text direction issues.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+206A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Inhibit Symmetric Swapping |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |  |
| HTML Hex Encoding |  |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x206A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000206A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u206a |