About Two Dot Punctuation
Two Dot Punctuation is the Unicode character ⁚ at codepoint U+205A in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Two Dot Punctuation
To use the Two Dot Punctuation symbol (⁚) in HTML, insert the
entity ⁚ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⁚ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\205A';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u205A' evaluates to ⁚. In Python source, write '\u205A'.
The character encodes to E2 81 9A as UTF-8 bytes and 205A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8282.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.