Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

[Mike Wright]

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".

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> 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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