# How is a curly apostrophe different from an ASCII apostrophe?

A typographic closing single quote, also often used as an apostrophe. Code points: U+2019. It is not equivalent to the ASCII quote character in programming-language syntax. A non-equivalent fallback is "'" (ASCII apostrophe). Loses typographic styling. Exact string match: no. NFC match: no. Appearance and meaning were not tested. Font coverage, shaping, and application acceptance were not tested, so those results are unknown.

## Code points

- U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

## What was checked

### Right single quotation mark

A typographic closing single quote, also often used as an apostrophe.

It is not equivalent to the ASCII quote character in programming-language syntax.

Use ASCII apostrophe only where required by the input grammar.

## What this does not prove

No OS, font, browser, application, field policy or rendering engine was tested. Unicode validity and segmentation do not establish actual display or acceptance.

Unicode release recorded with this answer: 18.0.0.
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