Underscore

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Punctuation marks
apostrophe (' ) parentheses ( ( ) ), brackets ( [ ] ); ( { } ); ( < > ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dash ( ‒ ); ( – ); ( — ); ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) ( ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ); ( ¡ ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ); ( ‐ ) interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ); ( ¿ ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ); ( “ ” );     ( ‚ ’ ); ( „ ” ); ( ‚ ‘ ); ( „ “ );     ( ‹ › ); ( « » ); ( › ‹ ); ( » « );     ( 「 」 ); ( 『 』 ) semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) and backslash ( \ ) space (   ) and interpunct ( · )
ampersand ( & ) asterisk ( * ) and dagger ( † ‡) bullet ( •, more ) commercial at ( @ ) number sign ( # ) prime ( ′ ) and double prime (″) tilde ( ~ ) underscore ( _ ) vertical bar / pipe ( | )

The underscore _ is the character with ASCII value 95. On the standard US 101/102 computer keyboard it shares a key with the hyphen on the top row, to the right of the 0 key.

It is used as a diacritic mark in some African and Native American languages. The underscore is sometimes used as an underdot (Unicode: COMBINING DOT BELOW) in romanized Arabic and Hebrew.

It is also often used instead of a space in computer operating systems, file names, and in World Wide Web URLs.

Some computer applications will automatically underline text surrounded by underscores: _underlined_ will render underlined. It is also conventionally used in this fashion on Usenet — an ASCII-only medium — to indicate underlining.

However, Microsoft Word changes text input between underscores to italics.

It is not a dash, and should not be used as such. A series of underscores (like _________) may be used to create a blank to be filled in on a form. It is also sometimes used to create a horizontal line, if no other method is available.

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