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Glyph for U+2019
Source: Noto Sans

U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark

U+2019 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name (na1) SINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK
Block (blk) General Punctuation
General Category (gc) Final Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Close
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) MidNumLet
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Quotation
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R