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| Interrogetary and Exclamatory | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alt Code | Symbol | Description | ||
| Alt 33 | ! | Exclamation Mark | ||
| Alt 19 | ‼ | Double Exclamation | ||
| Alt 173 | ¡ | Inverted exclamation mark | ||
| Alt 63 | ? | Question Mark | ||
| Alt 168 | ¿ | inverted question mark | ||
| Alt Codes for Parenthesis | ||||
| Alt Code | Symbol | Description | ||
| Alt 40 | ( | Open Bracket | ||
| Alt 41 | ) | Close Bracked | ||
| Alt 91 | [ | Open Square Bracket | ||
| Alt 93 | ] | Close Square Bracket | ||
| Alt 123 | { | Open curley bracket | ||
| Alt 125 | } | Close curley bracket | ||
| Alt Codes for Editing | ||||
| Alt Code | Symbol | Description | ||
| Alt 28 | ∟ | Tab Marker | ||
| Alt 21 | § | Paragraph | ||
| Alt 20 | ¶ | Carriage Return | ||
| Alt 0134 | † | dagger / obelos | ||
| Alt 0135 | ‡ | double dagger / diesis | ||
| Reported Speech / Quotation | ||||
| Alt Code | Symbol | Description | ||
| Alt 34 | " | Quotation Mark | ||
| Alt 0139 | ‹ | quotation mark | ||
| Alt 0155 | › | quotation mark | ||
| Alt 0145 | ‘ | curly single open quote | ||
| Alt 0146 | ’ | curly single close quote | ||
| Alt 0147 | “ | curly double open quote | ||
| Alt 0148 | ” | curly double close quote | ||
| Alt 174 | « | Quotation Mark | ||
| Alt 175 | » | Quotation Mark | ||
| Alt 0130 | ‘ | curly single quote | ||
| Alt 0132 | „ | low curly doublequote | ||
| Alt Codes for Abbreviation | ||||
| Alt Code | Symbol | Description | ||
| Alt 39 | ' | Apostraphe | ||
| Alt 96 | ` | Angled Apostraphe | ||
| Alt 38 | & | Ampersand | ||
| Alt 64 | @ | At Symbol | ||
| Alt Codes for General Punctuation | ||||
| Alt 58 | : | Colon | ||
| Alt 59 | ; | Semi-Colon | ||
| Alt 44 | , | Comma | ||
| Alt 46 | . | Full Stop / Period | ||
| Alt 32 | Space | |||
| Alt 255 | Alternative Space | |||
| Alt 0133 | … | dot dot dot / ellipsis | ||
| Alt 95 | _ | Underscore | ||
| Alt 0175 | ¯ | overscore | ||
| Alt 124 | | | Bar | ||
| Alt 126 | ~ | Tilda/Squiggle | ||
| Alt 0168 | ¨ | diaresis | ||
| Alt 45 | - | Dash or Hyphen | ||
| Alt 0151 | — | Longer Dash or Hyphen | ||
| Alt 22 | ▬ | Long Hyphon | ||
| Alt 42 | * | Asterisk | ||
| Alt 47 | / | Slash | ||
| Alt 92 | \ | Back Slash | ||
| 1º and 1ª mean 1st in some languages | ||||
| Alt 166 | ª | a superscript | ||
| Alt 167 | º | o superscript | ||
| Archaic Punctuation Alt Codes | ||||
| Alt 0183 | · | interpunct | ||
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