Right single quotation mark
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Right single quotation mark | |
| U+2019 ’ <reserved-2019> |
The Unicode character ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark.[1] This is due to the many fonts and character sets (such as CP1252) that unified the characters into a single code point, and the difficulty of software distinguishing which character is intended by a user's typing.[2] There are arguments that the typographic apostrophe should be a different code point, U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.[3][better source needed]
The straight apostrophe ' (the "ASCII apostrophe", U+0027 ' <reserved-0027>) is even more ambiguous, as it could also be intended as a left or right quotation mark, or a prime symbol.
See also
[edit | edit source]- General Punctuation (Unicode block)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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