Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Tue Jun 3 21:03:52 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 03 June 2008 22:09, TNWestTex wrote:
> Nigel Henry-3 wrote:
> > I'm having a problem setting my address properly on a French site. The
> > address
> > includes the line, 2 Chemin de L'AA. L'AA is composed of L plus
> > apostrophe plus AA, in case you are seeing this different. When I set
> > L'AA in my address
> > box on this site, it views as set, but when I validate the address on the
> > site it comes back as L\'AA, which if you arn't seeing this, is L plus
> > backslash plus apostrophe plus AA. This is really wierd.
> >
> > Is the single quote the same as an apostrophe? If not, where do I find
> > the apostrophe character.
> >
> > I'm using KDE, and a gb keyboard layout, and have also tried out the ca
> > layout, which I use a lot for french accented characters on my qwerty
> > keyboard.
> >
> > Posting from the ancient FC2, and Kmail.
> >
> > btw: I do have other Fedora versions installed, and used up to F8, but
> > FC2 is
> > an old faithfull, and plods along on this machine, with virtually no
> > problems, apart from the mouse pointer freezing on the odd occasion.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Nigel.
>
> Depends on the context.  The single quote has special meaning to the shell.
> In text it is an apotrophe.
> Guessing, the backslash keeps the quote in place until the mail program can
> do its own internal parsing as
> a part of the address.
>
> Robert McBroom

I've just been back to the site, and whereas the address had previously shown 
L\'AA, it now shows L'AA, which is correct. It's a bit of a mystery, but the 
site for my personal info is at least now showing my correct address.

Thanks for the reply Robert.

Nigel.




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