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Writing · QuotesU+2019 · General Punctuation

Right Single Quotation Mark

U+2019 · decimal 8217 · General Punctuation

Every way to write it

7 forms
HTML entity

’

A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.

HTML numeric

’

The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.

CSS content

\2019

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u2019

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u2019

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%E2%80%99

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

E2 80 99

3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

Typing it without copying

system picker
macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search right single quotation mark

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 8217

Groups it belongs to

Characters near it

8
Code pointU+2019
EntityNamed
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo