ASCII Character ‘
Left single quotation markQuotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off 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 character. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for ‘
These are the code points for left single quotation mark in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ISO-8859-7 | 161 | A1 |
| Windows-1250 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1251 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1252 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1253 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1254 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1255 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1256 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1257 | 145 | 91 |
| Windows-1258 | 145 | 91 |
Unicode for ‘
The character for left single quotation mark is mapped in Unicode as U+2018| Unicode | U+2018 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 8216 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u2018 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x80 0x98 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000000:10011000 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 11100010:10000000:10011000 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x2018 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002018 | |
HTML Entities for ‘
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the left single quotation mark in HTML| HTML Number | ‘ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ‘ | |
| HTML Entity | ‘ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %E2%80%98 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =E2=80=98 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2018" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \2018 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2018" | |
| Perl | \x{2018} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2018" | |
| Python 3 | \u2018 | |
| Ruby | \u{2018} |