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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.
However, an equals sign, a number 8, a capital letter B or a capital letter X are also used to indicate normal eyes, widened eyes, those with glasses or those with crinkled eyes, respectively. Symbols for the mouth vary, e.g. ")" for a smiley face or "(" for a sad face. One can also add a "}" after the mouth character to indicate a beard.
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. 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.
Little punctuation is encoded. Parentheses are shown above in the basic block above, and the exclamation mark ꜝ is shown in the IPA table below. A question mark may be created with a superscript gelded question mark and a combining dot: ˀ̣ , although some fonts do not render it properly.
The Unicode 14.0 Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block contains 242 emoji, [3] [4] consisting of all the non-Typikon symbols except for the rifle and the pentathlon symbol. The rifle and the pentathlon emoji has been rejected due to its controversy, analogous to the redesign of the pistol emoji .
These emoji modifiers can be used on emojis that represent people or body parts including the 54 human emojis in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictograph block. [ 5 ] In August 2014, Peter Edberg of Apple Inc. and Mark Davis of Google proposed implementing these "emoji modifiers" to provide better representation of " human diversity " in emoji ...
These symbols included the punctus admirativus, [4] a symbol that was similar in shape to the modern exclamation mark and was used to indicate admiration, surprise, or other strong emotions. [5] The modern use of the exclamation mark was supposedly first described in the 14th century by Italian scholar Alpoleio da Urbisaglia.
Mark as Read K: Mark as Unread Shift + K: Star L: Unstar Shift + L: Delete Del or Backspace: Archive E: Restore to inbox Shift + E: Open Move menu D: Go to the previous message Left arrow: Go to the next message Right arrow: Reply R: Reply all A: Forward F: Print P: Open attachmet preview Shift + P