Unicode Character 'LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+00AB) | 
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LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
			LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK | 
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | 
| Category | Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage) [Pi] | 
| Combine | 0 | 
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] | 
| Mirror | Y | 
| Old name | LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET | 
| Index entries | ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE chevrons left pointing guillemet LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT-POINTING guillemet, left pointing QUOTATION MARK, LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE  | 
		
| Comments | left guillemet chevrons (in typography) usually opening, sometimes closing  | 
		
| See Also | much less-than U+226A left double angle bracket U+300A  | 
		
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) | 
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | « | 
| HTML Entity (hex) | « | 
| HTML Entity (named) | « | 
		
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +00AB Alt 0171 Alt 174  | 
	
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xAB (c2ab) | 
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11000010:10101011 | 
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x00AB (00ab) | 
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 171 | 
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x000000AB (00ab) | 
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 171 | 
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u00AB" | 
| Python source code | u"\u00AB" | 
| More... | |
| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | « | 
| string.toLowerCase() | « | 
| Character.UnicodeBlock | LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT | 
| Character.charCount() | 1 | 
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] | 
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 | 
| Character.getType() | 29 | 
| Character.isDefined() | Yes | 
| Character.isDigit() | No | 
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No | 
| Character.isISOControl() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isLetter() | No | 
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No | 
| Character.isLowerCase() | No | 
| Character.isMirrored() | Yes | 
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No | 
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No | 
| Character.isTitleCase() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isUpperCase() | No | 
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes | 
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |