U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
U+00A1 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+00A1 prohibits a line break after it.
The CLDR project calls this character “inverted exclamation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bang, exclamation, exclamation mark, exclamation point, inverted.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The inverted question mark, ¿, and inverted exclamation mark, ¡, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages which have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray languages. The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the 'ordinary' question mark, ?, or exclamation mark, !.
Inverted marks are supported by various standards, including ISO-8859-1, Unicode, and HTML. They can be entered directly on keyboards designed for Spanish-speaking countries.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 161 |
| UTF-8 | C2 A1 |
| UTF-16 | 00 A1 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 A1 |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%A1 |
| HTML hex reference | ¡ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ¡ |
| HTML named entity | ¡ |
| HTML named entity | ¡ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 AE |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | C1 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| LATEX | \textexclamdown |
| AGL: Latin-1 | exclamdown |
| AGL: Latin-2 | exclamdown |
| AGL: Latin-3 | exclamdown |
| AGL: Latin-4 | exclamdown |
| AGL: Latin-5 | exclamdown |
| Adobe Glyph List | exclamdown |
| digraph | !I |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| R |