In a recent answer I needed to include a a possessive apostrophe in a path name within Time Machine for a command line operation. I have it saved in a text file, but what the heck is it? I don't see it on my keyboard.
"/Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Backups.backupdb/david914’s MacBook Air/2015-08-30-221221/Macintosh HD/Users/david914/"
I first tried to look at it with python, but no luck.
These I know:
things = ["'", '"', "`"]
names = ["single quote", "double quote", "backtick"]
ascii = [ord(thing) for thing in things]
for (a, b, c) in zip(things, ascii, names):
print " " + a + " " + str(b) + " " + c
' 39 single quote
" 34 double quote
` 96 backtick
but the apostrophe in question is: --> ’ <--
and all I can get is:
>>> ord("’")
Unsupported characters in input
Then I used Excel:
=CODE("’")
and got:
Checking the opposite direction in Excel:
=CHAR(213)
Back to python:
>>> chr(213)
'\xd5'
Does this character appear normally on English MacBook Air keyboards? How else can I make them besides resorting to some kind of Office or Open Office product ?? What it is, anyway?