Interrobang Character Entity

The interrobang is a sadly underutilized bit of punctuation, in my humble opinion. That might be because the HTML character entity coding to produce it in web pages is obscure. It doesn’t appear in my [admittedly dated] HTML: The Definitive Guide but, of course, the interweb is chock full of references. So, if you want to include one in your website, use this code: ‽

Here’s the result of that code, as rendered by your browser in Verdana:

OK, there might be one additional reason you don’t see the interrobang used very often. It doesn’t  render very impressively.

What’s up with that‽


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