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

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LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

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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]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Mirror RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+00BB)
Old name LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET
Index entries ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE
chevrons
DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT-POINTING
guillemet, left pointing
left pointing guillemet
LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
QUOTATION MARK, LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE
Comments Formal Alias: left guillemet
Formal Alias: 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
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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
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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