diff --git a/src/effects.js b/src/effects.js
index d87ba8f5..e95741c0 100644
--- a/src/effects.js
+++ b/src/effects.js
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 		}
 
 		return this[ optall.queue === false ? "each" : "queue" ](function() {
-			// XXX ‘this’ does not always have a nodeName when running the
+			// XXX 'this' does not always have a nodeName when running the
 			// test suite
 
 			var opt = jQuery.extend({}, optall), p,