The
Unicode character (U+2019 ) is used both for a
typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing)
quotation mark
Quotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an ...
. 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. There are arguments that the typographic apostrophe should be a different code point, U+02BC
.
Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.)
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The straight apostrophe (the "ASCII apostrophe", ) is even more ambiguous, as it could also be intended as a left or right quotation mark, or a prime symbol.
See also
* General Punctuation (Unicode block)
References
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Punctuation