Re: Exclamation mark comma

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 11:20:59 EST

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    On 2003.11.27, 01:37, Rick McGowan <rick@unicode.org> wrote:

    > Well, here's an exclomma for you.

    Looks nice (though .GIF or .PNG would have been a wiser choice).

    > Theodore H. Smith asked:
    >
    >> I've often wanted to type a symbol, that's like an exclamation mark,
    >> and a comma at the same time. That is, instead of the "." on the
    >> bottom of a "!", it has a "," instead.

    That reminds me of my father's old typwriter, wich lacked a "!" on the
    keyboard -- a major mystery for a six year old wannabe typographer. He
    enventually disclosed that it should be composed as period + backspace +
    apostrophe (or inversely).

    Of course making your exclomma with that method would be trivial. :-)

    >> Is there such a Unicode code point?

    Nope. (But there are a bunch of odd ball cousins, mostely from the Zapf
    Dingbats block, but not all. I mean, is there any serious typographical
    use for an interrobang?...)

    >> Or I suppose, is there a way to compose such a character.

    You can "compose" the *glyph" in a number of ways (U+007C U+0326 is one)
    but it would always be a kludge.

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