[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:  trunk
 Keywords:  needs-patch wptexturize needs-unit-  |  Resolution:
  tests                                          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by nacin):

 Good first step, I agree. We'll want some unit tests for this, to verify
 that it no longer messes with '9 or '999. (It looks like '999 will still
 fail here.)

 I tend to agree with Helen, '99's is poor form. But there are some
 possessive considerations. "1999's introduction of the Euro" becomes
 "'99's introduction of the Euro". Not that a year possessing something is
 good form.

 An aside, I enjoyed searching around for some writings about the direction
 and treatment of these apostrophes, and I was happy that the first three
 results I clicked were WordPress blogs that, in the text, had examples
 correct. Meanwhile, one post was a 500-word missive on how to get
 Microsoft Word to do this without screwing it up.

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