Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe
Mike Wright
mike.wright at mailinator.com
Tue Jun 3 21:04:44 UTC 2008
Nigel Henry 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.
Very interesting question to me.
I think it is a "right single quote".
>
> 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.
I found a canadian-french keyboard layout on Wikipedia. I think the
character you want is the one next to the "right shift" key.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KB_Canadian_French.svg
Hope that's useful ;)
>
> 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.
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