Right single quotation mark

Not to be confused with Apostrophe, ʻOkina, Modifier letter apostrophe, or Modifier letter turned comma.

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]}

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

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.

See also

• General Punctuation (Unicode block)