Punctuation formerly used as a sentence or paragraph divider. It is still sometimes used in calligraphy. Spanish uses an inverted question mark at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark at the beginning of an exclamation and the normal exclamation mark at the end. Armenian uses several punctuation marks of its own. The full stop is represented by a colon, and vice versa; the exclamation mark is represented by a diagonal similar to a tilde , while the question mark resembles an unclosed circle placed after the last
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