What is the difference between Line Separator and Space?

Line Separator is U+2028 in the General Punctuation block. Space is U+0020 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Line Separator?

The HTML entity for Line Separator (U+2028) is .

What is the HTML entity for Space?

The HTML entity for Space (U+0020) is .

Are Line Separator and Space the same Unicode character?

No. Line Separator is U+2028 (decimal 8232) and Space is U+0020 (decimal 32). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Line Separator and Space?

Line Separator (U+2028) encodes as E2 80 A8 in UTF-8. Space (U+0020) encodes as 20 in UTF-8.

Line Separator vs Space

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Line Separator

U+2028

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Space

U+0020

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Property Comparison

Property	Line Separator	Space
Codepoint	`U+2028`	`U+0020`
Decimal	`8232`	`32`
HTML Entity	` `	` `
HTML Decimal	` `	` `
HTML Hex	` `	` `
UTF-8	`E2 80 A8`	`20`
UTF-16	`20 28`	`00 20`
UTF-32	`00002028`	`00000020`
CSS Escape	`\2028`	`\20`
JS Escape	`\u2028`	`\u0020`
Python Escape	`\u2028`	`\u0020`
URL Encoded	`%E2%80%A8`	`%20`
Category	`Line Separator (Zl)`	`Space Separator (Zs)`
Block	`General Punctuation`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`WS`	`WS`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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