opinion/characters.html 2023-12-07

Characters looking like an apostrophe (and the apostrophe)

It is not that hard

as char	name	remarks	unicode	on american keyboard
,	comma	looks like a comma	x002c	yes
‘	single opening quotation mark	looks like rotated or mirrored high comma	x2018	no
’	single closing quotation mark	looks like high comma	x2019	no
'	apostrophe	sometimes looks like high comma, never looks like rotated or mirrored high comma	x0027	yes
`	grave	used as accent on french vowels	x0060	yes
´	acute	used as accent on french vowels and for emphasis	x00b4	no
′	prime	only used in math and for non-metric units like foot and minute of arc	x2032	no
‵	reversed prime	mirrored version of prime, usage is rare, even in math	x2035	no