[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #2572: Two apostrophes become an apostrophe and a right single quote

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#2572: Two apostrophes become an apostrophe and a right single quote
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       Id:  2572     |      Status:  new                     
Component:  General  |    Modified:  Wed Mar 15 13:44:04 2006
 Severity:  normal   |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  normal   |     Version:  2.0.2                   
    Owner:  ryan     |    Reporter:  rdparker                
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 There is a bug in the quoting mechanism of functions-formatting.php.

 {{{
     ``Hated'' is the right word,
 }}}

 for example, becomes
 {{{
     “Hated'’ is the right word,
 }}}

 instead of
 {{{
     “Hated” is the right word,
 }}}

 This is caused by the

 {{{
 $curl = preg_replace("/'([\s.]|\Z)/", '’$1', $curl);
 }}}

 substitution in functions-formatting.php. If there were a comma after the
 second apostrophe, then the issue would be caused by
 {{{
 $curl = preg_replace("/(\S)'([^'\s])/", "$1’$2", $curl);
 }}}

 I cannot think of a time when apostrophe followed by a right single quote
 would be the desired action so my local fix was to move the double-
 apostrophe rule to be right after the double-grave rule.  I will try to
 attach a patch for this.

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