HTML Best Practices Should I use rsquo or the special keyboard shortcut

Question

I know that  amp rsquo  will produce an apostrophe in an HTML document   I also know that option shift right bracket on a Mac will simply produce a     character   Are there best practices for writing code  e g   should I write   lt b gt The User amp rsquo s Forum lt  b gt    or   lt b gt The User   s Forum lt  b gt     note that by using the keyboard shortcut I ve been able to type     instead of   above   It strikes me that the latter  using the keyboard shortcut  is more robust  as it s not likely to display the raw HTML if  for example  it s not escaped   On the other hand  the special     character may not be readable in some browsers  perhaps      Anyone have any best practices on this

User · Answer

One risk of using the keyboard shortcut is that it requires using a non-ASCII encoding. That might be fine, but if your source is loaded by different editors in different locales, you might hit trouble somewhere along the line.

It might be safer to use either ’ or ’ (which are equivalent) as both are ASCII.

User · Answer

If your text will be consumed by non-browsers then it s safer to type the character with the keyboard-combo option shift right bracket because  amp rsquo  will not be transformed into an apostrophe by a regular XML or JSON parser   e g  if you are serving this content to native Android iOS apps

User · Answer

You should only use  amp rsquo  if your intention is to make either a closed single quotation mark or an apostrophe  Both of these punctuation marks are curved in shape in most fonts  If your intent is to make a foot mark  go the other route  A foot mark is always a straight vertical mark   It   s a matter of typography  One way is correct  the other is not

User · Answer

I don t think that one is better than the other in general  it depends on how you intend to use it    If you want to store it in a DB column that has a charset collation that does not support the right single quote character  you may run into storing it as the multi-byte character instead of 7-bit ASCII   amp rsquo    If you are displaying it on an html element that specifies a charset that does not support it  it may not display in either case  If many developers are going to be editing viewing this file with editors keyboards that do not support properly typing or displaying the character  you may want to use the entity If you need to convert the file between various character encodings or formats  you may want to use the entity If your HTML code may escape entities improperly  you may want to use the character    In general I would lean more towards using the character because as you point out it is easier to read and type

User · Answer

Typographically  the correct glyph to use in sentence punctuation is the quote mark  both single  including for apostrophes  and double quotes  The straight-looking mark that we often see on the web is called a prime  which also comes in single and double varieties and has limited uses  mostly for measurements    This article explains how to use them correctly

User · Answer

With  amp rsquo  you know for certain that the output will be correct  no matter what  I wish  amp apos  would output the proper apostrophe and not the typewriter apostrophe

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