Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
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 addre

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread TNWestTex
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 -- View this message in context: http:/

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
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

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread 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

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:44 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Is the single quote the same as an apostrophe? No, but a lot of things use them for the same thing. In plain old ASCII, you didn't have any alternative (only one character was available, and it was used for both purposes). With Unicode, you

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 13:34 +0930, Tim wrote: > It's about time keyboards were re-designed. We've got mostly useless > arrays of function keys (hardly anybody uses more than the F1 key, in > the grand scheme of things), yet most of the proper punctuation marks > are completely absent, and require