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  2. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    Standard English computer keyboard layouts inherited the single and double straight quotation marks from the typewriter (the single quotation mark also doubling as an apostrophe), and they do not include individual keys for left-handed and right-handed typographic quotation marks.

  3. Quotation mark - Wikipedia

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    If another set of quotation marks is nested inside single quotation marks, double quotation marks are used again, and they continue to alternate as necessary (though this is rarely done). British publishing is regarded as more flexible about whether double or single quotation marks should be used. [11]

  4. Right single quotation mark - Wikipedia

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    The Unicode character ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. [1] This is due to the many fonts and character sets (such as CP1252) that unified the characters into a single code point, and the difficulty of software distinguishing which character is intended by a user's typing. [2]

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Quotation mark: ÷: Division sign: Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics) Combining Diacritical Marks ⹀ ⸗ Double hyphen: Almost equal to … Ellipsis = Equals sign ℮ Estimated sign! Exclamation mark: Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang: ª: Feminine ordinal indicator

  6. Guillemet - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft added the single guillemets to CP1252 and similar sets used in Windows at 0x8B and 0x9B (139 and 155) (where the ISO standard placed C1 control codes). The ISO 8859 locations were inherited by Unicode, which added the single guillemets at new locations: U+00AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

  7. ' (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Single quotation mark (as straight version of the ‘ and ’ characters) Informal use. Being supplied as standard on many keyboard layouts, it is often used in ...

  8. Backtick - Wikipedia

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    The sign is located on the left-top of a US or UK layout keyboard, next to the 1 key. [c] On older keyboards, the Escape key was at this location, and the backtick key was somewhere on the right side of the layout. Provision (if any) of the backtick on other keyboards varies by national keyboard layout and keyboard mapping.

  9. Template:Punctuation marks in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation, initial quote: Graphic: Character: 12: Opening quotation mark. Does not include the ASCII "neutral" quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage Pf: Punctuation, final quote: Graphic: Character: 10: Closing quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage Pc: Punctuation, connector: Graphic: Character: 10 ...