Right single quotation mark

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Right single quotation mark
U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (’, ’, ’)

The character ’ (U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. The fact that they share a single (Unicode) codepoint is because many computer fonts and character sets (such as CP1252) had previously unified the characters into a single codepoint, and the difficulty of software (at the time) being able to distinguish which character is intended by a user's typing.

The straight apostrophe ' (the "ASCII apostrophe", U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE) is even more ambiguous, as it could also be intended as a left or right quotation mark, or a prime symbol.

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References

  1. ↑ "Unicode 13.0.0 final names list". Unicode Consortium. 2020. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  2. ↑ Kuhn, Markus (11 December 2007). "ASCII and Unicode quotation marks". University Computing Service, the University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.