The
double quote is
ASCII character 34 ("). Often used in
programming languages to delimit
strings. In
Unix shells and
Perl it delimits a string inside which
variable substitution may occur.
The lack of typographical-style opening and closing quotation marks in ASCII leads to extra contortions for word processing software.
- dirk
- double-glitch
- double prime
- INTERCAL: rabbit-ears
- ITU-T: dieresis
- ITU-T: quotation marks
- literal mark
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