Preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are U+2018 and U+2019 U+0027 APOSTROPHE neutral (vertical) glyph having mixed usage preferred character for apostrophe is U+2019 Preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are U+201C and U+201D U+0022 QUOTATION MARK neutral (vertical), used as opening or closing quotation mark Standards define the following characters: If you can use UnicodeĬharacters, nice directional quotation marks are available in the form Then use the apostrophe character (0x27) as both the left and right If you can use only ASCII’s typewriter characters, Quotation marks, while most modern systems follow the ISO and Unicode Some old video terminals show ASCII 0圆0/0x27 as left and right Text will otherwise appear rather strange with most modern fonts
Summary: Please do not use the ASCII grave accent (0圆0) asĪ left quotation mark together with the ASCII apostrophe (0x27) as theĬorresponding right quotation mark (as in `quote'). ASCII and Unicode quotation marks ASCII and Unicode quotation marks
