Is there a Greek version of the INTERROBANG?

abrahamgross at disroot.org abrahamgross at disroot.org
Fri Sep 18 15:31:30 CDT 2020


Not to bash on "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks", but it doesn't really have much information past the what you can find on the wikipedia articles of the punctuation marks it talks about. also a lot of the information isn't researched thoroughly enough for a satisfying history of the given punctuation mark.

Like in the asterisk chapter the author talks about how ⁑ U+2051 TWO ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY is buried in the depths of unicode for some unknown reason, when it was used in the past for specific reasons (which is why unicode added it)
2020/09/18 午前10:40:44 Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>:

> Marius Spix wrote:
> 
>> So you could compose an exclamation mark with a comma instead of a dot
>> with U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I and U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW,
>> but it still does not look right
> 
> That's because it isn't right. The exclamation mark is not derived from a capital I.
> 
>> and I am not even sure, if there is any evidence for such a character.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#%22Question_comma%22,_%22exclamation_comma%22
> 
> There are actually books about punctuation. One, which I regrettably do not yet own, is "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks," by Keith Houston. Such works might be useful for answering this question and the earlier one about the origin of the less-than sign.
> 
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> Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
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