Does unicode or HTML have a vertical double guillemet (chevron)?

Question

Does anybody know if there\'s a double chevron symbol in unicode/HTML-space similar to the double guillemet represented by » (»)?

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Answer 1

I can't give you the character entity that you want, but it's possible to effect an...alternative, and still not use images (though it does require that the text itself be wrapped in an element, in this case span):

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»

CSS:

span { /* this is all, pretty much, just for the aesthetics, and to be adapted */
    margin: 0 auto 1em auto;
    font-family: Helvetica, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 2em;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #000;
    background-color: #ffa;
    display: block;
    width: 2em;
    height: 2em;
    line-height: 2em;
    border-radius: 0.5em;
    text-align: center;
}

span.shadowed {
    text-shadow: 0 0.5em 0 #000;
}

span.rotated {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -o-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    transform: rotate(-90deg);
}

JS Fiddle demo.

The above span.rotated section, for IE < 10 compatibility (using filters, whereas IE 10 (or possibly 9) would/should use the -ms-transform or, simply, transform CSS3), using a filter approach:

span.rotated {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -o-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    transform: rotate(-90deg);
    /* IE < 10 follows */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3);
}​

JS Fiddle demo (works in IE 7/XP, other versions I'm unable to test).