Unicode Character 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2018) |
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| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| Category | Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage) [Pi] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] |
| Mirror | N |
| Old name | SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK |
| Index entries | SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK quotation mark, single turned comma Quotation Marks turned comma quotation mark, single QUOTATION MARK, LEFT SINGLE single turned comma quotation mark comma quotation mark, single turned |
| Comments | single turned comma quotation mark this is the preferred character (as opposed to U+201B) |
| See Also | apostrophe U+0027 modifier letter turned comma U+02BB heavy single turned comma quotation mark ornament U+275B |
| Variants | U+2018 U+FE00non-fullwidth form U+2018 U+FE01right-justified fullwidth form |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | ‘ |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ‘ |
| HTML Entity (named) | ‘ |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +2018 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x80 0x98 (e28098) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000000:10011000 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x2018 (2018) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 8,216 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x00002018 (2018) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 8,216 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u2018" |
| Python source code | u"\u2018" |
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | ‘ |
| string.toLowerCase() | ‘ |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | GENERAL_PUNCTUATION |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 29 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isLetter() | No |
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No |
| Character.isLowerCase() | No |
| Character.isMirrored() | No |
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No |
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No |
| Character.isTitleCase() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |
