Typographic quote or apostrophe.
smart-quotestypography'Typographic quotation marks and their relatives: the curved opening and closing forms, the low forms German uses, and the angled guillemets of French and several other languages.
From word processors, which convert straight quotes as you type, and from any well-set web page.
Almost always. These are correct typography, not artifacts, and TraceFree keeps them by default.
They become a problem only where a program expects the straight ASCII forms — in source code, in a shell command, in a CSV field. For that case the strict preset normalises them, and it is off unless you ask for it.
| Preset | Action |
|---|---|
conservative | kept |
default | kept |
report-only | asked about |
strict | replaced |
Context guards can only ever make a cleanup gentler, never sharper. A rule saying “always remove” does not override them.
In TraceFree, turn on the clipboard watcher and copy the text — the finding appears with a before-and-after comparison of the affected lines. For files, a watched folder does the same, keeping a backup copy alongside.
This page never prints the character itself, only ways of writing it. A page about invisible characters that contained invisible characters would be unreviewable — and that is the problem the program exists to solve.
| Notation | Value |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2019 |
| Rust | \u{2019} |
| JavaScript, Python | \u2019 |
| HTML | ’ ’ |
| Regex (PCRE, Rust) | \x{2019} |