Forums: Helping Hand > Apostrophy or right quote?
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I was going to fix a few stray right quotes (Unicode U+2019 -’-) and change them to apostrophies (Unicode U+0027 -'-) but I discovered it might not be as simple as I thought so I opened this forum topic. I believe we should be using the most common character set we can and still represent the correct spelling of FR names etc. As such, the apostrophy is the correct character to indicate possessives and plurals. I ran into this problem earlier when using my MacBook to edit pages. When I tried to search for them on my PC I couldn't find them. It seems the MacBook wants to use the right quote instead of the apostrophy.
Try this: Type "Player" (without the quotes) into the main search box at the top of any wiki page and wait to see how many titles it suggests. Then type the apostrophy on your keyboard, making the search term "Player'" and see how many titles disappear from the suggestion list. I think this will happen regardless of which brand of computer you use, but I don't have my MacBook handy to try it.
I propose using the 7-bit ASCII apostrophy (Unicode U+0027 -'-) for all plurals and possessives so that searching will always return the correct results. The right quote is really intended to be paired with the left quote around a passage of text.
What do you think, sirs?
Moviesign 15:10, January 10, 2012 (UTC)