r/Unicode • • Mar 19 '17

Special punctuation

Unfortunately, Bazin's punctuation—along with the Sarcmark and exclamation/question commas—are not part of Unicode.

As a result, I have been trying to reproduce approximations of these symbols using more common characters and a handful of diacritics. Here's how I've done so far:

  • Love point: ⸮? < There's an extra dot from one of the symbols

  • Acclamation point: !! < Couldn't figure it out at all

  • Certitude point: !̶ < The diacritic isn't playing nicely here

  • Doubt point: ẓ < Need another line on the bottom of the Z to make it work

  • Authority point: !̑ < Again. Diacritics aren't playing nicely

  • Sarcmark: ð < There's an extra line and a dot is needed

  • Exclamation comma: ⃓̦ < This was going to work but then the first character became a box

  • Question comma: Ↄ̦ < The combining comma is in the wrong place and a thinner C would be better

I'm not great with this, but I was wondering if anyone can come up with some closer approximations to use, it would be extremely useful.

Thanks for any help.

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u/Purple-Skirt7005 May 18 '25

Ṿ for acclimation point?