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Punctuation, parenthesis

Character encoding

Punctuation, parenthesis

 

.

Name

period (ISO: full stop)

Unicode

002E

UTF-8

2E

,

Name

comma

Unicode

002C

UTF-8

2C

;

Name

semicolon (NB: Different from "Greek question mark")

Unicode

003B

UTF-8

3B

:

Name

colon

Unicode

003A

UTF-8

3A

?

Name

question mark

Unicode

003F

UTF-8

3F

¿

Name

inverted question mark

Unicode

00BF

UTF-8

C2BF

!

Name

exclamation mark

Unicode

0021

UTF-8

21

¡

Name

inverted exclamation mark

Unicode

00A1

UTF-8

C2A1

;

Name

Greek question mark (NB: Different from semicolon)

Unicode

037E

UTF-8

CDBE

·

Name

Greek middle dot (NB: Used as semicolon)

Unicode

0387

UTF-8

CE87

·

Name

middle dot (NB: Should not be used instead of 0387)

Unicode

00B7

UTF-8

C2B7

(

Name

opening parenthesis (ISO: left parenthesis)

Unicode

0028

UTF-8

28

)

Name

closing parenthesis (ISO: right parenthesis)

Unicode

0029

UTF-8

29

[

Name

opening square bracket (ISO: left square bracket)

Unicode

005B

UTF-8

5B

]

Name

closing square bracket (ISO: right square bracket)

Unicode

005D

UTF-8

5D

{

Name

opening curly bracket (ISO: left curly bracket)

Unicode

007B

UTF-8

7B

}

Name

closing curly bracket (ISO: right curly bracket)

Unicode

007D

UTF-8

7D

Name

left pointing angle bracket

Unicode

2329

UTF-8

E28CA9

Name

right pointing angle bracket

Unicode

232A

UTF-8

E28CAA