Special characters
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| Character name | Character | Description |
| Non-breaking space |
| The non-breaking space is used when no line break is desired, it is frequently used between numbers and units (for example: 20.00 €). |
| Short dash | – | According to the Duden, the short dash is the only dash permissible in German. There is a blank on the left and right of the dash respectively. It is recommended to enter a non-breaking space between the dash and the word preceding it so that the dash does not appear at the beginning of a line. The short dash is also used to designate a distance between two locations (Hamburg – Berlin, with spaces) or two opponents (Germany-Hungary 3:2, without space). |
| Long dash | — | In English texts, the long dash is used. In German, it is used to replace "00" of currency values in tables and price lists (for example: 20,— EUR). |
| Minus | − | The sign in the upper right-hand corner of the numeric pad (-) is not a minus symbol, but a simple hyphen! The "genuine" minus symbol is used as mathematical operator and as negative sign. |
| Omission marks | … | Omissions and continuations are often depicted by three subsequent dots. If the omission marks appear at the end of a sentence, no full stop will follow, however, there might be other punctuation marks. Omission marks have a space on their right and left side respectively, unless they replace letters of the preceding word. |
| Single bottom quotation mark | ‚ | According to the Duden, the German character set generally uses two variants of quotation marks or inverted commas:
Additionally, there are so called single quotation marks (‚foo‘ and ‹foo›) used for proper names, definitions of terms or quotations within a quotation. Anglo-Saxon countries follow different rules. The opening quotation mark is not typed at the bottom but at the top, just like the closing one and turned towards the word (“Foo”).
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| Single left quotation mark | ‘ | |
| Single right quotation mark | ’ | |
| Single angle mark pointing to the right | › | |
| Single angle mark pointing to the left | ‹ | |
| Double bottom quotation mark | „ | |
| Double quotation marked inclined to the left | “ | |
| Double quotation marked inclined to the right | ” | |
| Double angle mark pointing to the right |
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| Double angle mark pointing to the left | « | |
| Apostrophe | ’ | In German, the apostrophe is used as omission mark for one or several letters (»Wie geht’s?«) or to mark the genitive case of names ending in ss, ß, tz, z or x having no article (»Das ist Lars’ Aufgabe.«). The correct character to be used is the right quotation mark ('). |
| Cent | ¢ |
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| Copyright | © |
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| Registered trademark | ® |
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| Trademark | ™ |
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| One half | ½ |
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| One quarter | ¼ |
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| Three quarters | ¾ |
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| Per mill | ‰ |
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| Center point | · |
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