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UNI-007 · Quotes

‘ ’

The quote within the quote — and the apostrophe the keyboard never had.

‘ opens (U+2018) and ’ closes (U+2019), and the second one holds two trades: closing the single quotation and serving as the typographic apostrophe — it’s, rock ’n’ roll.

The keyboard's straight apostrophe is a typewriter character; Unicode recommends U+2019 as the preferred apostrophe. The entities are ‘ and ’.

Wrong:  it's · rock 'n' roll
Right:  it’s · rock ’n’ roll
The real apostrophe is the closing curve.