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In what language does and - hash - three - nine - semicolon (') represent the apostrophe? I had some website data extracted in JSON format where some of the user comments had apostrophe which were replaced by '.

So, what representation it is? I can not even google it as Google searches for apostrophe and not for and - hash - three - nine - semicolon.

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It's HTML character references for encoding a character by its decimal code point

Look at the ASCII table here and you'll see that 39 (hex 0x27, octal 47) is the code for apostrophe

ASCII table

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  • Thanks a lot! I have still one query. How do you serch it in the google search bar so that it does not get replaced by apostrophe? So, that I could have got the links that you provided in the answer. – Rajesh Surana Mar 28 '15 at 06:15
  • I don't need to search for it. A little html knowledge will help – phuclv Mar 28 '15 at 06:20
  • That means there is no way to search for it unless we know what it is already. – Rajesh Surana Mar 28 '15 at 06:24
  • No, you can guess from where it appears and read the documents for that. For example if it appears in URLs or HTML source codes then probably it's something related to HTML. Then read HTML documents and find for that – phuclv Mar 28 '15 at 06:25
  • in cases that searching skills don't help, you can use a search engine for special characters like http://symbolhound.com/ in [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4685615/search-engine-for-special-characters?rq=1) – phuclv Mar 28 '15 at 06:29
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    @RajeshSurana: Try searching for `'` without a semicolon. – Nisse Engström Mar 28 '15 at 07:01