' (disambiguation)

The ' character has number 39 in ASCII and code U+0027 in Unicode. It is used as:

Apostrophe (as straight version of the ’ character), a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark
Single quotation mark (as straight version of the ‘ and ’ characters)

It is often used in informal contexts to replace other similar looking characters that include:

Accents, pronunciation, or stress

Diacritical marks

Acute accent ´, a diacritic used in many modern written languages
Geresh ׳, a sign in Hebrew writing
Grave accent `, a diacritical mark in many written languages
Apex ´, a diacritic used to indicate a long vowel

Modifier letter punctuation

Modifier letter apostrophe ʼ, a glyph
Modifier letter left half ring ʿ, a character used to transliterate the letter ayin, representing the sound ʕ
Modifier letter right half ring ʾ

Other uses as accents, pronunciation, or stress

ʻOkina ʻ, a unicameral consonant letter
Saltillo (linguistics) Ꞌ or ꞌ, a glottal stop consonant, ʔ
Spiritus lenis ᾿
Stress (linguistics) ˈ, relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word
Ejective consonant ʼ, used in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Units of measure

Prime (symbol) ′, used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics, and music
- Foot (unit), a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement
- Minute, a unit of time
- Minute of arc, a unit of arc

gollark: Please help me.

gollark: I have no idea how to continue this conversation.

gollark: Well, this is dull.

gollark: I somehow can't even decide how exactly file upload should work.

gollark: None of the problems in this are algorithmically challenging, the most complex bit of this is just the weird logic for generating context around a link, but I have trouble making decisions and adding features involves lots of that.