U202C

U202C is a Unicode control character, specifically a non-character. It is intended to be a strong right-to-left mark, which is used to support the correct display of bidirectional text. In Unicode, characters are assigned properties that dictate how they should be treated in rendering and processing. The strong right-to-left mark influences the directionality of text, ensuring that characters are laid out correctly in languages that are written from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew. However, as a non-character, U202C is designated as a character that should never appear in valid Unicode text. This means that while it has a defined meaning and property within the Unicode standard, its presence in a string signifies an invalid or malformed sequence. Software that encounters a U202C character is expected to either ignore it or report an error, rather than attempting to interpret it as part of the textual content. This designation helps maintain data integrity and prevents unexpected rendering issues that could arise from a character with bidirectional properties being present where it is not intended.