Unicode Character 'LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+00AB) |
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| 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" |
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| 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 |
