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Characters

It is not that hard

example glyphsnameremarksunicodeon american keyboard

single quotation marks looks like rotated high comma and high comma x2018, x2019 no
apostrophe sometimes looks like high comma, never looks like rotated 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