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What's the unicode for '¿' ?

Answer 1

+1 A:

Google is a help ALWAYS:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=pl&q=unicode+for+inverted+question+mark&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

and:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/bf/index.htm

answer: U+00BF

Tomasz Kowalczyk 2010-09-11 01:19:11

Answer 2

+16 A:

A quick search on Google for "unicode for upside down question mark" led me to a Wikipedia article, which stated that

The inverted question mark (¿) corresponds to Unicode code-point 191 (U+00BF)

¿ɹoɟ buıʞooן ǝɹǝʍ noʎ ʇɐɥʍ ʇɐɥʇ sı

AndreyT 2010-09-11 01:19:16

Did you write that in Unicode?

omgzor 2010-09-11 02:00:52

@dmindreader: Um.. Probably. I just did a Google search for "flip text", found http://www.fliptext.org/ and copy-pasted the result from there :)

AndreyT 2010-09-12 00:11:14

Answer 3

+2 A:

According to Ubuntu's gucharmap:

U+00BF INVERTED QUESTION MARK

General Character Properties

In Unicode since: 1.1
Unicode category: Punctuation, Other

Various Useful Representations

UTF-8: 0xC2 0xBF
UTF-16: 0x00BF

C octal escaped UTF-8: \302\277
XML decimal entity: &#191;

Annotations and Cross References

Alias names:
 • turned question mark

Notes:
 • Spanish

See also:
 • U+003F QUESTION MARK
 • U+2E2E REVERSED QUESTION MARK

Delan Azabani 2010-09-11 01:19:51

Answer 4

+11 A:

If you want to obtain the Unicode value of a character you can use this simple Javascript :

javascript:alert("¿".charCodeAt(0))

This will alert the Unicode value of the character. If you want to use it in HTML, the synthax is & #191; (without space between & and #) where 191 is the Unicode number of your character.

HoLyVieR 2010-09-11 01:22:49

Jonik 2010-09-11 01:26:25

+1 nice trick (II)!

Topera 2010-09-11 02:15:20

...and if you want the U+nnnn hex code unit, `'¿'.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)`.

bobince 2010-09-13 09:31:23

Answer 5

+1 A:

Unicode table might be helpful 00A01F.

Gabriel Ščerbák 2010-09-11 01:26:41

It isn't `00a01f`; you add `1f` to `00a0` using hex arithmetic, giving `00bf`.

Delan Azabani 2010-09-11 01:30:52

@Delan Azabani makes sense thanks for explanation!

Gabriel Ščerbák 2010-09-11 01:40:58

No problem :) (15 chars)

Delan Azabani 2010-09-11 05:45:03

Answer 6

+1 A:

If you know Java you can print it like this:

$ cat UnicodeTest.java  
public class UnicodeTest { 
    public static void main( String [] args )  { 
        System.out.println( ( int ) '¿' );
    }
}


$ javac -encoding UTF8 UnicodeTest.java  
$ java UnicodeTest
191

Answer 191

Java's characters are unicode.

BTW, ¡That's not an upside down question mark! it is an "opening" question mark. It is just not everyone uses it, just like a '(' is not an upside parenthesis.

OscarRyz 2010-09-11 01:41:28

The Unicode standard calls it an 'INVERTED QUESTION MARK'

Mark Cidade 2010-09-11 02:39:40

Answer 7

+2 A:

I use this site as search tool for unicode characters. Here are the search results for ¿. It has one result: Unicode Character 'INVERTED QUESTION MARK' (U+00BF).

Useful site.

BalusC 2010-09-11 02:13:36

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