Unicode Character 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2018) |
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| Unicode Data | |
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| 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 | Quotation Marks quotation mark, single turned comma LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK single turned comma quotation mark SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT comma quotation mark, single turned turned comma quotation mark, single QUOTATION MARK, LEFT SINGLE |
| 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 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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