English Language & Usage Asked by F Ramirez on February 27, 2021
I’ve always wondered what the correct apostrophe is when using contractions. Should I use She´s happy or She’s happy?
Why do a lot of people use ´ for this, as though it were café au lait? Am I missing something here?
"She's happy" uses unicode character U+0027, which is an apostrophe.
"She´s happy" uses unicode character U+00B4, which is an acute accent.
The first is correct, the second is wrong.
There are other alternatives to U+0027 as an apostrophe:-
There is unicode character, U+02BC [᾿], which is the modifier letter apostrophe and that could also be used appropriately.
It should be noted that the Unicode committee (controversially) recommend using character U+2019 [’] for an apostrophe (which is the right single quotation mark).
The reason that using the acute accent and right single quotation mark characters is a problem, is that machine parsing of the text (such as autoformatting) can misinterpret the intended character and produce erroneous output. (We see something similar here when people use the grave accent (U+0060 [`]) along with the acute accent as quotation marks and it renders the word between in code markup.)
Correct answer by KillingTime on February 27, 2021
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