Punctuation Symbols

Punctuation beyond the keyboard: en and em dashes, curly quotes, guillemets, the ellipsis, dagger and double dagger, pilcrow, section sign and interrobang.

This group holds 7 characters. They are scattered from U+0021 to U+203C, 8,220 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Latin-1 Supplement (4), Basic Latin (2), General Punctuation (1) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for §. The phrase people type for the first of those is section symbol alt code, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

Most of them, 4 of the 7, come from Latin-1 Supplement: the accented letters and common signs Western European languages needed. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 3 of them. The rest come from Basic Latin and General Punctuation.

6 of the 7 have a Windows Alt code that works as printed. The rest are copy and paste, which works the same everywhere.

Of the 7, 4 have a Mac shortcut of their own. Everything else in this drawer is reached by copying it or by its codepoint, which works in every application on every system.

1 have a compatibility decomposition, which means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer and a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. 6 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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