How Many Punctuation Marks !!

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مزمل شیخ بسمل نے کہا:
Is anybody aware of the punctuation mark that cannot be typed by a computer keyboard?
مزید نمائش کے لیے کلک کریں۔۔۔
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There are loads of them! (Depedning on the keyboard layout that you're using, of course.)​
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The Unicode standard defines a huge number of "punctuation characters" scattered around different code point ranges (take a look at this reference page, under "Punctuation, XYZ"). Wikipedia's article on punctuation has a list of some of the most common punctuation marks for Latin scripts; you can take a look and see for yourself the ones that cannot be typed.​
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An example: the "curly" quotes (“”), essential for good typography, cannot be typed with a regular QWERTY layout -- the quotes that you see on a QWERTY layout are called "typewriter quotes". Same is the case with different types of dashes. You can, of course, use the characters found on a standard QWERTY layout to "approximate" a certain pronunciation mark, but that will not be sound from a strict typographic perspective.​
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By the way...​
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An example: the "curly" quotes (“”), essential for good typography, cannot be typed with a regular QWERTY layout -- the quotes that you see on a QWERTY layout are called "typewriter quotes". [...] You can, of course, use the characters found on a standard QWERTY layout to "approximate" a certain pronunciation mark, but that will not be sound from a strict typographic perspective.​
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مزید نمائش کے لیے کلک کریں۔۔۔
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I should clarify one thing: grammatically, use of a typewrite quote is correct and completely fine. To take an example from the Oxford website:​

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Typewriter single quotes: What does 'integrated circuit' mean?​
Curly single quotes: What does ‘integrated circuit’ mean?​
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Both are correct in terms of English grammar, but the sentence with typewriter quotes will annoy the heck out of a passionate typographer.​
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