Punctuation reader. Quotation marks are particularly variable across European languages. For example, in French and Russian, quotes would appear as: (in French, each "double punctuation", as the guillemet, requires a non-breaking space; in Russian it does not). In French of France, the signs : ; ? and ! are always preceded by a thin unbreakable space. In Canada, this is only the case for :. In Greek, the question mark is written as the English semicolon, while the functions of the colon and semicolon are performed by a raised point , known as the (). In Georgian, three dots, , were
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