[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26850: Single quotes show up as apostrophes when appearing before numbers

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#26850: Single quotes show up as apostrophes when appearing before numbers
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 Reporter:  yurivictor                           |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Formatting                           |  Release
 Severity:  minor                                |     Version:  3.9
 Keywords:  wptexturize needs-unit-tests has-    |  Resolution:
  patch close                                    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by miqrogroove):

 Yeah I got that part.  And as I pointed out above, a single apostrophe
 before a number is syntactically identical and ambiguous between the year
 abbreviation and the beginning of a quoted number.  How do you propose to
 distinguish between dates and quotes?

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