String a = "Hello\u200e";
String b = "Hello\u200f";
System.out.println("a = '" + a + "' and b = '" + b + "' are length "
+ a.length() + " and " + b.length()
+ ", equals() is " + a.equals(b));
The code in the above code snippet produces the following output.
a = 'Hello' and b = 'Hello' are length 6 and 6, equals() is false
Although the value of both a
and b
displayed on the console is Hello
, a.equals(b)
returns false
. How?
U+200E
and U+200F
are not printable characters. They're both control characters which dictate how the text should be rendered - either left to right, or right to left.
You won't see these in the terminal, and they shouldn't be equivalent strings.
0x200E ^ 0x200F != 0
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