U+201E Double Low-9 Quotation Mark
U+201E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as low double comma quotation mark.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+201E behaves as Open Punctuation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “low right quotation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: double quote, low quotation, low right quotation mark, quotation, quote, smart quotation.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Quotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.
Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8222 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 9E |
| UTF-16 | 20 1E |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 1E |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%9E |
| HTML hex reference | „ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | „ |
| HTML named entity | „ |
| HTML named entity | „ |
| alias | low double comma quotation mark |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 84 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | D7 |
| LATEX | ,, |
| AGL: Latin-1 | quotedblbase |
| AGL: Latin-2 | quotedblbase |
| AGL: Latin-3 | quotedblbase |
| AGL: Latin-4 | quotedblbase |
| AGL: Latin-5 | quotedblbase |
| Adobe Glyph List | quotedblbase |
| digraph | :9 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK | |
| LOW DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| R |