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  2. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    Despite being semantically different, the typographic closing single quotation mark and the typographic apostrophe have the same visual appearance and code point (U+2019), as do the neutral single quote and typewriter apostrophe (U+0027). [6]

  3. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is preferred where the character is to represent a punctuation mark, as for contractions: "we’ve", and the code is also referred to as a punctuation apostrophe. [116] The closing single quote and the apostrophe were unified in Unicode 2.1 "to correct problems in the mapping tables from Windows and ...

  4. Quotation mark - Wikipedia

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    Quotation marks [A] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. [3]

  5. Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe - AOL

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    Little punctuation marks—like a comma, question mark, or an apostrophe—can make or break the flow or meaning of a sentence. In fact, this is how confusing life would be without proper punctuation.

  6. Right single quotation mark - Wikipedia

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    The Unicode character ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. [1] This is due to the many fonts and character sets (such as CP1252) that unified the characters into a single code point, and the difficulty of software distinguishing which character is intended by a user's typing. [2]

  7. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Apostrophe: Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave: Quotation marks in English, Possessive * Asterisk: Asterism, Dagger: Footnote ⁂ Asterism: Dinkus, Therefore sign @ At sign \ Backslash: Slash, Solidus (/) ` Backtick (non-Unicode name) ('Backtick' is an alias for the grave accent symbol) ‱ Basis point (per ten thousand) Per cent, per ...

  8. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/quotation and punctuation ...

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    (An apostrophe at the end of a word should never be confused with a closing single quotation mark; punctuation always follows the apostrophe.) In the kind of textual studies where retaining the original placement of a comma in relation to closing quotation marks is essential to the author's argument and scholarly integrity, the alternative ...

  9. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    For example, curved quotes and apostrophes were all collapsed into two characters (' and "). The hyphen , minus sign , and dashes of various widths have been collapsed into a single character (-), sometimes repeated to represent a long dash.