U+206E "" National Digit Shapes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+206E "" National Digit Shapes is an invisible formatting control character used within bidirectional text processing to indicate that the following numerical digits should be displayed using the national variant of digit shapes as defined by the local context, rather than the default European or Arabic-Indic forms. It is part of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm's explicit formatting codes, intended for cases where digits are expected to adopt region specific glyphs, such as in documents that mix languages with differing numeral systems. This character is not meant for general text display but serves as a metadata directive for text rendering engines to ensure proper numeral presentation in multilingual environments. As a non printing control code, it influences the visual output without leaving a visible trace in the content itself.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
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| HTML Hex Encoding |
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| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x81 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x206E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000206E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u206e |
Unicode Properties