Unicode Character 'APOSTROPHE' (U+0027)

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Unicode Data
Name APOSTROPHE
Block Basic Latin
Category Punctuation, Other [Po]
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Mirror N
Old name APOSTROPHE-QUOTE
Index entries quote, apl
neutral single quotation mark
apl quote
single quotation mark, neutral
APOSTROPHE
quotation mark, neutral single
apostrophe-quote
Comments apostrophe-quote (1.0)
single quote
APL quote
neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
U+2019 is preferred for apostrophe
preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are U+2018 & U+2019
U+05F3 is preferred for geresh when writing Hebrew
See Also modifier letter prime U+02B9
modifier letter apostrophe U+02BC
modifier letter vertical line U+02C8
combining acute accent U+0301
combining vertical line above U+030D
hebrew punctuation geresh U+05F3
left single quotation mark U+2018
right single quotation mark U+2019
prime U+2032
latin small letter saltillo U+A78C
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) '
HTML Entity (hex) '
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +27
Alt 039
Alt 39
UTF-8 (hex) 0x27 (27)
UTF-8 (binary) 00100111
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0027 (0027)
UTF-16 (decimal) 39
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000027 (27)
UTF-32 (decimal) 39
C/C++/Java source code "\u0027"
Python source code u"\u0027"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() '
string.toLowerCase() '
Character.UnicodeBlock BASIC_LATIN
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 24
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