U+2032
PRIME
Prime, often pasted in place of an apostrophe.
- Codepoint
- U+2032
- Short
- PRIME
- Group
smart-quotes- Class
typography- Default
- kept
- Replaced by
'
What it is
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.
Where it comes from
From word processors, which convert straight quotes as you type, and from any well-set web page.
When it belongs
Almost always. These are correct typography, not artifacts, and TraceFree PRO 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.
What TraceFree PRO does with 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.
How to remove it
In TraceFree PRO, turn on the clipboard watcher and copy the text. On the command line:
tracefree clean --backup document.txt
pbpaste | tracefree clean | pbcopyReport without changing anything — exit code 1 on findings, so it works in CI:
tracefree check -r ./docsHow to write it
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+2032 |
| Rust | \u{2032} |
| JavaScript, Python | \u2032 |
| HTML | ′ ′ |
| Regex (PCRE, Rust) | \x{2032} |
Related characters
Try it on your own text
Paste anything into the browser demo and see what is in it. Same engine as the app, running entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded.
