opinion/characters.html 2021-06-25
Characters
It is not that hard
example glyphs | name | remarks | unicode | on american keyboard |
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single quotation marks | looks like rotated high comma and high comma | x2018, x2019 | no |
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apostrophe | sometimes looks like high comma, never looks like rotated high comma | x0027 | yes |
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grave | used as accent on french vowels | x0060 | yes |
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acute | used as accent on french vowels and for emphasis | x00b4 | no |
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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 |