Legacy Characters

Unicode Description
Code Name
" 0022 quotation mark 201c and 201d are the preferred paired quotation marks, and 2033 is the double prime
' 0027 apostrophe, apostrophe-quote, APL quote 2018 is the preferred opening quotation mark, 2019 is the preferred apostrophe and closing quotation mark, and 2032 is the prime
- 002d hyphen-minus (hyphen or minus sign) 2010 is the hyphen, 2013 is the en dash, and 2212 is the minus sign
\ 005c reverse solidus, backslash common escape character, and we'll never get Windows to ditch it
^ 005e circumflex accent 0302 is the combining circumflex accent, and 2227 is the logical and
_ 005f low line, spacing underscore commonly used in filenames in place of a space
` 0060 grave accent 0300 is the combining grave accent, 2018 is the preferred opening quotation mark. I suggest chevrons for command execution