U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
U+2019 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Final Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as single comma quotation mark.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2019 prohibits a line break around it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “right apostrophe” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: apostrophe, quote, single quote, smart quote.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Unicode character ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. 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. There are arguments that the typographic apostrophe should be a different code point, U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.
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.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8217 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 99 |
| UTF-16 | 20 19 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 19 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%99 |
| HTML hex reference | ’ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ’ |
| HTML named entity | ’ |
| HTML named entity | ’ |
| HTML named entity | ’ |
| alias | single comma quotation mark |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 AF |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 C7 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | D5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-874 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | D5 |
| LATEX | ' |
| AGL: Latin-1 | quoteright |
| AGL: Latin-2 | quoteright |
| AGL: Latin-3 | quoteright |
| AGL: Latin-4 | quoteright |
| AGL: Latin-5 | quoteright |
| Adobe Glyph List | quoteright |
| digraph | '9 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| SINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Final Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidNumLet | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Quotation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Right Single Quotation Mark | |
| R |