What is & # 39; and why does Google search replace it with an apostrophe?

Question

In what language and - hash - three - nine - semicolon ( ' ) represent an apostrophe? I extracted some website data in JSON format, where some user comments contained an apostrophe that was replaced with ' ,

So what is this view? I can’t even google it, because Google is looking for an apostrophe and not and - a hash - three - nine - a semicolon.

Answer 1

These are HTML symbolic links for encoding a character by its decimal code point

Look at the ASCII table here and you will see that 39 is the code for the apostrophe