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After doing some research, I believe the curly apostrophe is the preferred and correct apostrophe to use in English and in French, at least.
I am thinking about/proposing the following for apostrophes:
Have the data processor stage replace act like a modern word processor and replace all ' with ՚ in the context of an apostrophe or single char quote. Likewise for left curly single quote. This only impacts EXP_ARCH1 (generated) files, not KBD3 files.
Have the server likewise automatically convert single quotes (left and right) in search strings to curly quotes.
Problem solved--Still would need to think of potential negatives. But since no permanent data would be changed, it would be easily reversible.
Currently, typing a single quote ' in a search field doesn't find articles where a smart quote ՚ exists, for example
For example, try Day՚s in the title vs Day's
The issue is smart quote/apostrophe is really:
HTML Entity: ’ or ’ or ’
The single quote you type on your keyboard is different. The authoring apps are changing these to smart (curly) quotes.
Smart quotes also exist throughout the database surrounding single quoted phrases, thus involving a &lsquo.
This would also affect double quotes, but these are not allowed in searches anyway.
I am thinking about possible solutions to improving searches where single quotes are part of the search criteria.
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