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 |