Right single quotation mark explained
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The Unicode character (U+2019) 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 .[3]
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.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Unicode 13.0.0 final names list . . 2020 . 2020-04-14 . 2013-12-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131217221630/http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt . live .
- Web site: ASCII and Unicode quotation marks . Markus . Kuhn . . 11 December 2007 . 25 September 2020 . 3 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201003081727/https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html . live .
- Web site: Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.) . 3 June 2015 . 2020-04-14 . 2016-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407041732/https://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/which-unicode-character-should-represent-the-english-apostrophe-and-why-the-unicode-committee-is-very-wrong/ . live .
