LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK character

LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
U+00AB
171
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LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET
Pi (Initial Punctuation (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage))
ON (Other Neutrals)
Y
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK is an initial quotation mark from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Initial Punctuation (Pi) refers to punctuation marks that are used at the beginning of a quoted section of text. These characters are typically used in quotation marks or dialogue indicators, such as “ or ‘.

This character belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block. The Latin-1 Supplement block extends the Basic Latin block by adding additional characters used in Western European languages. This includes letters with diacritics (such as é, ñ, and ö), punctuation marks, and symbols like the Euro sign (€). This block is part of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding standard, which was widely used before the adoption of Unicode. These characters are essential for representing languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, ensuring proper orthography and typographic conventions..