Left Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
U+00AB · decimal 171 · Latin-1 Supplement
Every way to write it
7 forms«
A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
«
The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
\00AB
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
\u00AB
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
\u00AB
The escape for a Python string literal.
%C2%AB
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
C2 AB
2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickerControl + Command + Space, then search left pointing double angle quotation mark
Character Map or Alt + 171