How Do I Make These Things? « and »

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#1

Hello,

I have seen these symbols (« and ») in many scripts but have no idea how to make them. Can someone help me out? What are they called?

Thanks
Dallas

#2

Hi Dallas,

these characters are called
Left Pointing Double Angel Quotation Mark and
Right Pointing Double Angel Quotation Mark
Unicode dez 171 / 187

On a US keyboard layout ⌥ \ and ⇧⌥ \

#3

Thanks for your help Stefan
Dallas

#4

PS: How did you create the characters in your post ? ;):wink:

#5

I’m betting copy/paste… ya know the same thing I do since I can never remember LOL

#6

Just Like James said, the old cut and paste. I had been cut and pasting them into scripts as well but I figured I should probably know what they actually were.

For anyone else that doesn’t know
Keystroke - Option + \ will give you the Left one
Keystroke - Option + Shift + \ will give you the Right one.