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Seldom-used English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation mark. Invented by American advertising executive Martin K. Speckter in 1962. It never took off.
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Wikipedia article here for you curious sorts.
A shame that it could never gain a foothold. Much more useful than the question comma and the exlamation comma
Yes, the question and exclamation commas are slightly goofy… but ”?!” is a sentiment anyone can relate to. Plus it has the most wonderful name ever. “Interrobang” is crazy fun to say.
There are six of us now… do you suppose if we all start using it now, it’ll be enough to bring on an interrobang renaissance?
How does one type it, though?
The Wikipedia article -bailey- cited above has the info: on Windows it is ALT +8253. Arial Unicode for example has the glyph. Let’s get it started!
It’s typeable in some fonts… it might be possible to figure out a way to get it to show up in a browser, but unicode confuses me. Hmmmm.
Oops, beat me to it!
I can’t figure it out. :/
Some experience: under Windows the ALT input method given in Wikepedia doesn’t seem to work with Word or OpenOffice as they seem to ignore that specific Unicode code point. But: the Wingdings-2 font contains four variants of the Interrobang that work in all documents. Browser display is just fine. Linux in all this regards: like Windows. The Wikipedia method of writing the Interrobang in HTML works and it works in Bestuff descriptions ;) See: ‽ No problem on the Mac of course; found 13 installed fonts that contain the glyph, input works perfectly, like any other special glyph. Good news for us LaTeX users: the standard textcomp package provides the glyph as \textinterrobang and it also provides the Gnaborretni as \textinterrobangdown which is good news for people writing Spanish.
I’ve constructively used it once thus far. I am a tad proud. I look forward to more interrobang usage.
Excellent! I for one find that whenever I use the interrobang, it makes my day better.
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How exactly did you get the interrobang in that comment, belacqua?
(I'm using Windows XP, in case it matters)
put these together: & # 8253;
Test test#8253
Curses!
Test test‽
Seems that with the new comment editor a hack is needed, isn't it‽ After typing the aforementioned entity ‽ and sending the comment, it came out as the string for the entity, but after another edit it transformed into an interrobang :o
As rumour has it you should be able to type it directly in Windows by pressing the ALT key while typing 8253 on the numeric keypad (in case the browser support this).
(after pressing 8 2 5 3 while pressing the Alt key)
Hmm...is is just Firefox?