opinion/characters.html 2021-06-25
Characters
It is not that hard
| example glyphs | name | remarks | unicode | on 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 |