====== CSS Writing Modes Level 3 ====== The biggest issue is the default text-orientation of common symbols and punctuation, so here's a table to start figuring it all out. :) ^Orientation Code^Meaning^ |U|always upright| |S|always sideways| |G|upright with alt glyph, else fallback to sideways| |?|unknown, please fill in| |[1]|Special Behavior #1 (see notes below table)| ===== Data Table ===== If a column has different behavior for Japanese and Chinese, then write both with a slash: Ja/Zh. ==== General Categories Without Exceptions ==== Name CatCode Char CSSWG Unicode AH InDesign MSFT Vrt2 Notes Currency Symbols Sc $£€ S ? ? ? ? ? Except Fullwidth = Upright Math Symbols Sm + S ? ? ? ? ? Except Fullwidth = Upright Modifier Symbols Sk ¸˦῁ S ? ? ? ? ? ==== Latin-1 ==== Name Codepoint Char CSSWG Unicode AH InDesign MSFT Vrt2 Notes Exclamation Mark U+0021 ! S ? ? ? ? ? Has fullwidth variant Middle Dot U+00B7 ⋅ [1] ? ? ? ? ? Sideways in Japanese, Upright in Chinese === Notes === [1] **U** if ''lang=zh'', else **S** ==== General Punctuation ==== U+2016 ( ‖ ) DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE U U+2017 ( ‗ ) DOUBLE LOW LINE U U+2020 ( † ) DAGGER U U+2021 ( ‡ ) DOUBLE DAGGER U U+2022 ( • ) BULLET U U+2023 ( ‣ ) TRIANGULAR BULLET U U+2024 ( ․ ) ONE DOT LEADER s U+2025 ( ‥ ) TWO DOT LEADER s U+2026 ( … ) HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS s U+2027 ( ‧ ) HYPHENATION POINT U+2030 ( ‰ ) PER MILLE SIGN c U+2031 ( ‱ ) PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN c U+2032 ( ′ ) PRIME c U+2033 ( ″ ) DOUBLE PRIME c U+2034 ( ‴ ) TRIPLE PRIME c U+2035 ( ‵ ) REVERSED PRIME c U+2036 ( ‶ ) REVERSED DOUBLE PRIME c U+2037 ( ‷ ) REVERSED TRIPLE PRIME c U+2038 ( ‸ ) CARET S U+203B ( ※ ) REFERENCE MARK S U+203D ( ‽ ) INTERROBANG U U+203E ( ‾ ) OVERLINE S U+2041 ( ⁁ ) CARET INSERTION POINT S U+2042 ( ⁂ ) ASTERISM S U+2043 ( ⁃ ) HYPHEN BULLET S U+204A ( ⁊ ) TIRONIAN SIGN ET S U+204B ( ⁋ ) REVERSED PILCROW SIGN S U+204C ( ⁌ ) BLACK LEFTWARDS BULLET S U+204D ( ⁍ ) BLACK RIGHTWARDS BULLET S U+204E ( ⁎ ) LOW ASTERISK S U+204F ( ⁏ ) REVERSED SEMICOLON S U+2050 ( ⁐ ) CLOSE UP S U+2051 ( ⁑ ) TWO ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY S U+2053 ( ⁓ ) SWUNG DASH S U+2055 ( ⁕ ) FLOWER PUNCTUATION MARK S U+2057 ( ⁗ ) QUADRUPLE PRIME c # General Punctuation — Double punctuation for vertical text U+203C ( ‼ ) DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK U U+2047 ( ⁇ ) DOUBLE QUESTION MARK U U+2048 ( ⁈ ) QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK U U+2049 ( ⁉ ) EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK U # General Punctuation — Archaic punctuation U+2056 ( ⁖ ) THREE DOT PUNCTUATION S U+2058 ( ⁘ ) FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION S U+2059 ( ⁙ ) FIVE DOT PUNCTUATION S U+205A ( ⁚ ) TWO DOT PUNCTUATION S U+205B ( ⁛ ) FOUR DOT MARK S U+205C ( ⁜ ) DOTTED CROSS S U+205D ( ⁝ ) TRICOLON S U+205E ( ⁞ ) VERTICAL FOUR DOTS S # Supplemental Punctuation — Dictionary punctuation U+2E1B ( ⸛ ) TILDE WITH RING ABOVE U+2E1E ( ⸞ ) TILDE WITH DOT ABOVE U+2E1F ( ⸟ ) TILDE WITH DOT BELOW # Supplemental Punctuation — Archaic punctuation U+2E2A ( ⸪ ) TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2B ( ⸫ ) ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION U+2E2C ( ⸬ ) SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2D ( ⸭ ) FIVE DOT MARK U+2E2E ( ⸮ ) REVERSED QUESTION MARK U+2E30 ( ⸰ ) RING POINT U+2E31 ( ⸱ ) WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT ==== Arrows and Box Drawing ==== U+2190–U+21FF, U+261A–U+261F, U+2B00–U+2B11, U+2B45–U+2B46, U+2794–U+27BE U+2500–U+257F, U+2580–U+259F ==== Special numbers ==== U+00B2, U+00B3, U+00B9, U+20070, U+2074–U+2079, U+2080–U+2089, U+00BC–U+00BE, U+2150–U+215F, U+2189 Anything else in No category? **Unicode Error*** Aegean numbers U+10107–U+10133 and North Indic fractions U+A830–U+A835 will be in ScriptExtensions.txt in Unicode 6.1, and therefore not Common, and therefore Sideways. ==== All Other Symbols (So) ==== ...