| ’ | |
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Right single quotation mark | |
| U+2019 ’RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK |
TheUnicode character’ (U+2019RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both atypographic apostrophe and a single right (closing)quotation mark.[1] This is due to the many fonts and character sets (such asCP1252) 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+02BCMODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.[3][better source needed]
Thestraight 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 aprime symbol.
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