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Graphically, the exclamation mark is represented by variations on the theme of a period with a vertical line above. One theory of its origin posits derivation from a Latin exclamation of joy, namely io, analogous to "hooray"; copyists wrote the Latin word io at the end of a sentence, to indicate expression of joy.
Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
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.
DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK U+203C: Po, other Common ‽ INTERROBANG U+203D: Po, other Common ‾ OVERLINE U+203E: Po, other Common ⁁ CARET INSERTION POINT U+2041: Po, other Common ⁂ ASTERISM U+2042: Po, other Common ⁃ HYPHEN BULLET U+2043: Po, other Common ⁇ DOUBLE QUESTION MARK U+2047: Po, other Common ⁈ QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK U+2048 ...
The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a password "requires punctuation marks".
The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics. Additionally, the subsequent columns contains an informal explanation, a short example, the Unicode location, the name for use in HTML documents, [ 1 ] and the LaTeX symbol.
), 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]
Shaded cells mark small capitals that are not very distinct from minuscules, and Greek letters that are indistinguishable from Latin, and so would not be expected to be supported by Unicode. Little punctuation is encoded. Parentheses are shown above in the basic block above, and the exclamation mark ꜝ is shown