Entering and Display
The interrobang is not a standard punctuation mark. Few modern typefaces or fonts include a glyph for the interrobang character. The standard interrobang is at Unicode code point U+203D ‽ interrobang (HTML: ‽). The inverted interrobang is at Unicode code point U+2E18 ⸘ inverted interrobang. Single-character versions of the double-glyph versions are also available at code points U+2048 ⁈ question exclamation mark and U+2049 ⁉ exclamation question mark.
The interrobang can be used in some word processors with the alt code Alt+8253 when working in a font that supports the interrobang, or using an operating system that performs font substitution.
Depending on the browser and which fonts the user has installed, some of these may or may not be displayed or may be substituted with a different font.
| Image | Default font | Fixed | Palatino Linotype | Calibri | Arial Unicode MS | Code2000 | Helvetica | Unicode* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‽ | ‽ | ‽ | ‽ | ‽ | ‽ | ‽ | ‽ | |
| *The Unicode column uses one of a selection of wide coverage Unicode fonts depending on what is installed on the user's system | ||||||||
On a Linux system supporting the Compose Key, an interrobang can be produced by pressing the compose key followed by the exclamation point and the question mark; reversing the order creates the inverted interrobang. On Mac OS X, it is found on the Character Palette, obtained by pressing the key combination ⌘ Cmd+⌥ Opt+T.
The interrobang can be displayed in LaTeX by using the package textcomp and the command \textinterrobang. The inverted interrobang is also provided for in the textcomp package through the command \textinterrobangdown.
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