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Double quotes are not officially named in Lojban, but sometimes called lubu, following the same pattern as vowel letters, e.g. a = abu: Lojban uses the words lu and li’u, rather than punctuation, to surround quotes of grammatically correct Lojban. [49] Double quotes can also be used for aesthetic purposes.
Prime and double prime are not present in most code pages, including ASCII and Latin-1, but are present in Unicode, as characters U+2032 ′ PRIME and U+2033 ″ DOUBLE PRIME. The HTML character entity references are ′ and ″ , respectively.
The backslash (\) escape character typically provides two ways to include double-quotes inside a string literal, either by modifying the meaning of the double-quote character embedded in the string (\" becomes "), or by modifying the meaning of a sequence of characters including the hexadecimal value of a double-quote character (\x22 becomes ").
Closing bracket characters Pi: 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 ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated. [1] [2]The mark is made using "a pair of apostrophes"; [1] "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; [3] the symbol " (quotation mark); [2] [4] or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
In a context when the character set used does not include the prime or double prime character (e.g., in an online discussion context where only ASCII or ISO 8859-1 [ISO Latin 1] is expected), they are often respectively approximated by ASCII apostrophe (U+0027) or quotation mark (U+0022).
U+00AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+00BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+2039 ‹ SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+203A › SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; Despite their names, the characters are mirrored when used in right-to-left contexts.