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APOSTROPHE character


Name:
APOSTROPHE
Hex Number:
U+0027
Decimal Number:
39
HTML Entity (Dec):
'
HTML Entity (Hex):
'
Alternate Name:
APOSTROPHE-QUOTE
Category:
Po (Other Puntuation)
Bidi Class:
ON (Other Neutrals)
Mirrored:
N
Combining Class:
0
Unicode Block:
Basic Latin
Plane:
0
Plane Code:
BMP
Plane Description:
Basic Multilingual Plane
Plane Range:
0000-FFFF
Character Preview:
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APOSTROPHE is a punctuation mark of other type from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of APOSTROPHE is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Other Punctuation (Po) refers to all other punctuation marks that do not fit into the connector, dash, open, close, initial, or final categories. This includes characters like the period, comma, colon, and various other symbols used to structure sentences and phrases.

This character belongs to the Basic Latin block. The Basic Latin block, also known as the ASCII block, is foundational in computing and text processing. It includes the standard English alphabet (both uppercase and lowercase), Arabic numerals (0-9), and essential punctuation marks like periods, commas, and parentheses. ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, was developed in the 1960s and remains a cornerstone of text encoding. This block is indispensable for programming, data interchange, and everyday digital communication, forming the basis for many other Unicode blocks..





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