[What is this type of encoding? ']

This search and post is motivated by my own struggles with text encodings.

This is a short toy exploration.

Here are the initial/top results from various generative search tools for the query:[ What is this type of encoding? ' ], re the [character entity reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references) for an apostrophe.

Some of the tools have a correct or useful answer or top-link but render the entity reference in the message to the user as the apostrophe (ChatGPT, You.com). Some tools render the entity reference in the query itself as the apostrophe (Andi, Claude 2; Phind (though also rendering as queried in the response)). Some tools do not render it back to the user at all (or do not highlight it as they do other query terms; Google, Google SGE). Inflection AI Pi seems not to recognize the character at all.

This is largely only on base-versions of these tools (not GPT-4, not the GPT-4 version of You.com or Perplexity's Copilot). This is using Claude 2, though.

For rendering on this webpage all instances of `'` (except where rendered between backticks) the ampersand character (`&`) is itself written as `&`, so the string appears in my text editor like this: `'`

Raw uses of ' show only the apostrophe (') like this: '