What ‗ means
No. ‗ stands alone; ̳ attaches beneath text.
Unicode calls ̳ COMBINING DOUBLE LOW LINE and also lists “double underline” and “double underscore” as its names. It can connect beneath neighboring letters; ‗ is a spacing character, not an underline effect for surrounding text.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ‗ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ‗
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How to type or find ‗
- Search it as
- double underline character · double underscore · U+2017
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
‗
HTML hex
‗
CSS content
content: "\2017";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%80%97
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.