Punctuation two styles differ mainly in the way in which they handle quotation marks, particularly in conjunction with other punctuation marks. In British English, punctuation such as periods and commas are placed outside the closing quotation mark; in American English, however, punctuation is placed inside the closing quotation mark. This rule varies for other punctuation marks; for example, American English follows the British English rule when it comes to semicolons, colons, question marks, and exclamation points. Other languages of Europe use much the same punctuation as English. The similarity is so strong that the few variations may confuse a native English
Punctuation 1995. Various sets of characters are referred to as "punctuation" in certain computing situations, many of which are also used to punctuate natural languages. Sometimes non-punctuation in the natural language sense (such as "&" which is not punctuation but is an abbreviation for "and") are included. General Punctuation and Supplemental Punctuation are blocks of Unicode symbols. In regular expressions, the character class codice_1 is defined to consist of the following characters (when operating in ASCII mode): codice_2 Notes Further reading Punctuation Punctuation (formerly sometimes called pointing) is the use of spacing, conventional signs and certain typographical devices as aids to