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
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