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Old 02-05-2013, 07:18 AM   #10
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In HTML the & apos ; entity is a straight apostrophe. There is no curly apostrophe entity (annoyingly), so it seems that everyone has to use the & rquot ; entity - the right single curly quote that usually looks like a curly apostrophe.
There's ' only because it could be needed in some cases in strings, (just like there's &amp, but I think there was some weird conflict between HTML, XML and XHTML, meaning that ' is not correct in some of them, or something like that.

Other than that, the curly apostrophe is ’ (not &rquot; ), because in Unicode they are the same character, unfortunately. When I need to keep the difference, I use & #8217; for the apostrophe, but that's only useful as long as all modifications are done manually (any HTML-aware software will see ’ and & #8217; as the same thing, probably).
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