[wp-hackers] WordPress Uses "Wrong" Apostrophe in Blog Title

[Jeremy Visser]

Matt wrote:
> I have no problems with the "look" of it... It's just that google 
> recognizes the apostrophe (the normal one that gets typed into IE or
> w/e) as ', and not ’, so it sorta screws that up if you
> have an apostrophe in your blog title...

But doesn't Google ignore punctuation altogether? Or, doesn't it 
recognise &8217; as punctuation?