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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
However, use of exclamation marks in contexts that are not unambiguously positive can be misinterpreted as indicating hostility. In English writing and often subtitles, a (!) symbol (an exclamation mark within parentheses) implies that a character has made an obviously sarcastic comment e.g.: "Ooh, a sarcasm detector.
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known as the interrogative point) [3] and the exclamation mark (also known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang"). The glyph is a ligature of these two marks [4] and was first proposed in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter. [5]
The replacement character (often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark) is a symbol found in the Unicode standard at code point U+FFFD in the Specials table. It is used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to correct symbols.
TIBETAN MARK CLOSING BRDA RNYING YIG MGO SGAB MA U+0FD4: Po, other Tibetan ࿙ TIBETAN MARK LEADING MCHAN RTAGS U+0FD9: Po, other Tibetan ࿚ TIBETAN MARK TRAILING MCHAN RTAGS U+0FDA: Po, other Tibetan ⵰ TIFINAGH SEPARATOR MARK U+2D70: Po, other Tifinagh ᓆ TIRHUTA ABBREVIATION SIGN U+114C6: Po, other Tirhuta Ο UGARITIC WORD DIVIDER U+1039F ...
PC keyboards designed for non-English use included other methods of inserting these characters, such as national keyboard layouts, the AltGr key or dead keys, but the Alt key was the only method of inserting some characters, and the only method that was the same on all machines, so it remained very popular.
Even articles that use only English words may use punctuation such as an em dash (—), and symbols such as a section sign (§) or registered mark (®). Articles about or that mention European persons or places may use many extended Latin characters , and articles about other persons and places may require characters from entirely different ...