Editing Semicolon (section)

== Character encoding ==

In Unicode, the semicolon is encoded at {{unichar|003B|semicolon}}; this is the same value as it had in [[ASCII]] and [[ISO 8859-1]].

Unicode contains encoding for several other semicolon or semicolon-like characters:
* {{unichar|037E|GREEK QUESTION MARK|nlink=Greek question mark}}
* {{unichar|061B|Arabic semicolon}} – [[Arabic script]]
* {{unichar|1364|Ethiopic semicolon}} – [[Geʽez script]]
* {{unichar|204F|Reversed semicolon}} – used in old writing systems, such as [[Hungarian Runic]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3664.pdf|title=Proposal for encoding generic punctuation used with the Hungarian Runic script|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=André Szabolcs|last2=Szelp|date=2009-07-22|access-date=2014-03-12|archive-date=2014-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224062330/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3664.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Sindhi language]]
* {{unichar|236E|APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL SEMICOLON UNDERBAR}} – used in the [[APL (programming language)|APL programming language]]
* {{unichar|2E35|TURNED SEMICOLON}} – "indicates sudden glottal closure" in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]]
* {{unichar|A6F6|Bamum semicolon}} – [[Bamum script]]
* {{unichar|FE14|PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL SEMICOLON}} – determines orientation when wide-character scripts are written vertically instead of horizontally
* {{unichar|FE54|SMALL SEMICOLON}} – [[Small Form Variants]] are for compatibility with Chinese National Standard [[CNS 11643]]
* {{unichar|FF1B|Fullwidth semicolon}} – for use in wide-character scripts such as [[kanji]]
* {{unichar|E003B|TAG SEMICOLON}} – deprecated [[Tags (Unicode block)|tags block]]