Apostrophe

im new to a mac and am using pages for a report but noticed that there is a large space after i put in an apostrophe or quotation marks...is there any way to get rid of them? or does this not show up when i print my document?

I have just started to see this problem also. I'm using a template that has worked many times before and I just opened it to do the same thing I have always done and my apostrophe creates a space just after it......
-"There shouldn't be any space if you not are adding it your self with the space bar. Which font are you using?"
I am not hitting the spacebar and I'm using Apple LiGothic font.

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Problem with backtick replacing apostroph in applescript/shell script

I've got a script that appears to be using a backtick instead of an apostrophe which is causing an error in my shell script. For the life of me I can't seem to find where the error is being generated?
The script is attached below. I'm using Exiftool, an app that writes metadata to image files. The shell script
set cmd to "exiftool -CopyrightNotice=" & exifCopyright & " " & thisFilePath & ""
set theResult to do shell script cmd
works fine but the following shell script
set cmd to "exiftool" & space & authorStr & " " & thisFilePath & ""
set theResult to do shell script cmd
returns the error "sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file" number 2. The code in the event log in applescript editor looks exactly the same to me but one fails in the shell script.
It has been suggested by the developer of Exiftool, Phil Harvey, that there is a backtick in the second shell script. I read somewhere in the applescript docs that this is due to a change in OS 10.6? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Pedro

Yea, the authorStr value has a space like "Joe Smith"
Then you need to use quoted form of this string, too:
set cmd to "exiftool " & quoted form of authorStr & space & thisFilePath
although the format looks wrong to me - shouldn't there be some kind of switch, such as "-author=' before it?
You have to consider how you'd enter this at the command line to work out how best to translate it to AppleScript. For example, if the command line version were:
exiftool -author='John Doe' /path/to/some.jpg
you can see the quotes are around the name, not the entire -author switch. In this case you should be looking at something like:
set authorStr to "John Doe"
set theFilePath to "/path/to/some.jpg"
set theCmd to "exiftool -author=" & quoted form of authorStr & space & quoted form of theFilePath
Now you could, of course, use quoted form when you create the variables (e.g. set authorStr to quoted form of "John Doe"), but that may screw you up later on if/when you try to use authorStr in some other way, so I find it best to use quoted form only where it's needed.

JRC bug: apostrophe in string parameter passed to Crystal Report with Command datasource to SQL Server

Post Author: nl11087
CA Forum: JAVA
A single quote/apostrophe in string parameter passed to a Crystal Report with Command datasource connecting to a SQL Server database, using sqljdbc driver does not escape the special character correctly. When doing a preview in the Crystal Reports IDE it allows you to escape the input parameter as expected and work correctly, but through the JRC component it fails. For string parameters without special sql server characters I experience no problems at all. When replacing the Command with a direct table there is also no problem.
Reproduction:
1. create a database db1, create a table table1 with a String type column col1.
2. Create new report Report1.rpt, create a connection to above, Add Command using 'SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM table1 WHERE col1 = '{?Par1}' . Add a parameter field Par1 : String
3. In your java stand alone application using JRC add the parameter Par1 with a value "Jon Doe's Value" containing a single apostrophe. Export to PDF. (I also tried MSWord and this failed too, similar behavior). Additionally, in another test try to replaceAll("'","''") to escape it, preventing the code to break, but now it does not retrieve the expected row anymore and you end up with an empty report.
Exception StackTrace:
com.crystaldecisions.reports.exportinterface.exceptions.ExportException: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.b.b.int(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.c: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.l.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
... 17 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.be: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.nr(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bn(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bp(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.s.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.aa(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
... 23 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportdefinition.datainterface.n: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportdefinition.datainterface.p.a(Unknown Source)
... 35 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.m: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.o.eC(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.o.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.ea(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.h(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.dV(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ax.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.do(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.do(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ae.cy(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ae.cz(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.b1.bc(Unknown Source)
... 36 more
Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDatabaseError(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.IOBuffer.processPackets(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.getNextResult(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.doExecuteStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement$StatementExecutionRequest.executeStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.CancelableRequest.execute(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
... 48 more
- JRCAgent3 detected an exception: An error occured while exporting the report
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.b.b.int(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)

Post Author: nl11087
CA Forum: JAVA
A single quote/apostrophe in string parameter passed to a Crystal Report with Command datasource connecting to a SQL Server database, using sqljdbc driver does not escape the special character correctly. When doing a preview in the Crystal Reports IDE it allows you to escape the input parameter as expected and work correctly, but through the JRC component it fails. For string parameters without special sql server characters I experience no problems at all. When replacing the Command with a direct table there is also no problem.
Reproduction:
1. create a database db1, create a table table1 with a String type column col1.
2. Create new report Report1.rpt, create a connection to above, Add Command using 'SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM table1 WHERE col1 = '{?Par1}' . Add a parameter field Par1 : String
3. In your java stand alone application using JRC add the parameter Par1 with a value "Jon Doe's Value" containing a single apostrophe. Export to PDF. (I also tried MSWord and this failed too, similar behavior). Additionally, in another test try to replaceAll("'","''") to escape it, preventing the code to break, but now it does not retrieve the expected row anymore and you end up with an empty report.
Exception StackTrace:
com.crystaldecisions.reports.exportinterface.exceptions.ExportException: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.b.b.int(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.c: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.l.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
... 17 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.be: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.nr(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bn(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bp(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.s.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.aa(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
... 23 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportdefinition.datainterface.n: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportdefinition.datainterface.p.a(Unknown Source)
... 35 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.m: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.o.eC(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.o.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.ea(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.h(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.dV(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ax.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.do(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.do(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ae.cy(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ae.cz(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.b1.bc(Unknown Source)
... 36 more
Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDatabaseError(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.IOBuffer.processPackets(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.getNextResult(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.doExecuteStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement$StatementExecutionRequest.executeStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.CancelableRequest.execute(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
... 48 more
- JRCAgent3 detected an exception: An error occured while exporting the report
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.b.b.int(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)

Problem with apostrophe in javascript

Hi all,
I have a text retrieved from the database.It has apostrophe in it. Since the value is dynamic,i cannot manually use backslash to escape the apostrophe.my javscript coding isnt working if the text contains apostrophe.Help me out to solve the problem.
Thanks in Advance

hi,
I tried with the replace function
<%String s="yahoo's mail's";
String s1=s.replaceAll("'","\'");
System.out.println("---------------------------------------"+s1);
%>I am replacing"{color:#ff0000} *'*{color} " with "{color:#ff0000} *\'*{color} "
The expect the output to be yahoo\'s mail\'s.
But the output is yahoo's mail's.
I don't the mistake i am making here.Help me out.
thanks
Edited by: beginjava on Nov 10, 2008 5:04 AM

Query with Apostrophe (single quote)

Hi all,
I have noticed that when you enter a search string with an apostrophe (eg. Tito's Station) in a textbox on a form linked to a table and hit the Query button, it generates an sql error. I think this is cos u cannot have an apostrophe (single quote) in the search string in a "where" clause.
I am using Portal version 3.0.6.6.5 on an 8.1.7 database.
I have logged a tar (1744105.999) for this but it is said to be a bug (1759202). I wish to enquire whether any of you have had this problem with a later version or at which version leve this bug has been fixed.
Does any1 know how to limit the text typed into a texbox, so that it wont accept certain characters (eg. the apostrophe key) ??
Thanks

Hi Rene'
Thanks for your help! This will definitely help me alot! I am a little baffled with your code for delimiting the single quote. I tried it and it doesnt work.
Thanks very much for the response
Naseem
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Rene' Castle ([email protected]):
This is still an issue in 3.0.8.9.8. You can use a Javascript validation routine to disallow special characters.
If you want to check to see that they only enter certain things you can do:
var s = theElement.value;
var filter=/^[a-zA-Z]{1,}$/;
if (s.length == 0 ) return true;
if (filter.test(s))
return true;
else
alert(" Please input a valid character" );
theElement.focus();
theElement.select();
return false;
The above code would only allow one or more alphabetic characters. You could make it [a-zA-Z0-9] to allow alphanumeric characters. You could also allow anything but specific characters by doing the following:
var s = theElement.value;
var filter=/[^']*/;
if (s.length == 0 ) return true;
if (filter.test(s))
alert(" Please input a string without a single quote (') in it" );
theElement.focus();
theElement.select();
return false;
else
return true;
Hope this gets you started.
Rene'<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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JSF inputText takes apostrophe (single quote) as end of string

Hi,
I run into a problem with JSF when apostrophe(single quote) is in input text:
<h:inputText id="input1" styleClass="field" size="20" maxlength="20" value="#{bean.property1}" />
When user inputs string contains apostrophe (single quote), for example "John's task", the bean only gets "John". The text after the apostrophy is gone. It seems that the inputText takes apostrohe as end of the string.
I also test with escaple sequence, for example, input is "John\' task", the result in bean is still "John"
input is "John\\\' task", the result in bean is "John
It doesn't have problem with other special characters, such as "<">", "@" , double quote etc.
Finally, I fix the problem by replacing apostrohy with "& # 0 3 9".
I just wonder if anyone has similar prolbem and wehether this is some bug in certain version of JSTL or some configuration issue ( for example, some definittion for end of the string in some config file, etc).
Your insight is appreciated.
Thanks

Without the actual code we can't be of any meaning for you. Create a small reprocudeable test case and post the actual code here. For example:
JSF<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<f:view>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>test</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <h:form>
 <h:inputText value="#{myBean.value}" />
 <h:commandButton value="submit" action="#{myBean.action}" />
 <h:outputText value="#{myBean.value}" />
 </h:form>
 </body>
 </html>
</f:view>MyBeanpackage mypackage;
public class MyBean {
 private String value;
 public void action() {
 System.out.println(value);
 public String getValue() {
 return value;
 public void setValue(String value) {
 this.value = value;
}faces-config:<faces-config>
 <managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>myBean</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>mypackage.MyBean</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>
</faces-config>Which works fine by the way.

After updating to Yosemite some of my photos will open and then Ill get a black screen with an apostrophe. How can I fix this?

After updating my OS to Yosemite 10.10.1 some of my photos will not display. All of the previews will be there but when I click to open them they open up larger for a second and then the screen goes black and I get a grey apostrophe sign. I updated iPhoto to 9.6 (910.29) and also repaired my permissions. The problem still exists. Can anyone help me? I also have issues with iTunes but that's another story.

According to the link I provided it could still have its logging service running. Did you read the info in the link I provided? You can check it by launching Activity Monitor and under CPU search for cleanup.
Since the photos are in the library I don't see the need at this time to reinstall iPhoto. Maybe later. Try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete the contents the following folder: User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: For Mavericks and Yosemite, go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:
where you can check the Show Library Folder checkbox.

How can I change apostrophe & quote from curly to straight. I'm using Word.

I'm using a brand new Mac book Pro with word loaded in it. The curly quote marks and apostrophes mess up my feeds and translate as question marks inside of dark diamonds. I know this can be fixed because my 2007 mac book pro did the same thing regarding feeds. A technician came over and fixed it, but he's now in Canada, and I'm unable to contact him.
Thanks

Check out these two pages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA101732421033.aspx
http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/microsoft-word-blogging-tips-–-change-the-cur ly-quotes-to-straight-quotes/

How to replace typewriter (straight) apostrophe with typographic (curly) apostrophe?

I have a manuscript I got off the Internet that has a bunch of isn?t's and wasn?t's and the like—due, I assume, to some miscommunication between MS Word's automatic curly quotes and the ASCII limits of ISO Latin 1. I tried doing a find-and-replace to put typographic apostrophes in place of the question marks. Pages found the question marks and put typewriter apostrophes in place of them, though I'd carefully entered a typographical apostrophe ((opt-shift-]) in the Replace field. So I tried again, to replace the typewriter apostrophes with typographical apostrophes. Pages now replaced the few typographical apostrophes I'd manually entered with typewriter apostrophes. Well, at least it's consistent. So far as Pages, Apple's flagship word-processing/page-layout app is concerned, there's apparently no such thing as a typographical apostrophe—something that was understood, as I recall, by the original MacWrite 25 years ago. So do I have to go back to doing all my editing in TextEdit (which seems to be much better at text work than Pages), or can somebody tell me how to persuade Pages to take care of this trifling little task correctly?

Copy these two paragraphs into a Pages WP document:
When you?re sleep deprived… parental control of baby?s sleep… meet baby?s needs consistently… respond to baby?s cries…
"Parents should recognize that having their babies cry unnecessarily harms the baby permanently," Commons said. "It changes the nervous system so they?re overly sensitive to future trauma."
Open the Find & Replace dialog. Enter Find: ? and Replace: ’ (opt-shift-}). (I.e. replace question mark with typographical apostrophe.) Click Replace All. It should say 5 Replaced. Check any of the replacements by enlarging the type; you’ll see an ASCII apostrophe ['] rather than the requested typographical version [’].
Then enter Find: " (space-") and Replace: “ (space-opt-[), and click Replace All. It will say 1 Replaced, meaning the quote mark preceding "It" in the second sentence (the only quote mark preceded by a space). Enlarge the replacement to see it clearly; it's replaced an ASCII " with another ASCII ".
So far as I can tell, Pages’ Find-Replace function can't tell the difference between ASCII apostrophe/quote marks and the typographical versions. Maybe it will once you turn on smart quotes in preferences; I haven't tried that -- but then of course you'd get smart quotes when you don't want them, for instance for something to be posted on an Internet forum, which often doesn't understand them. (The problems above and similar, often seen on the 'Net, are due to MS Word's having smart quotes on by default, so unaware users compose material with them and send it out over teh Interwebz, where they sometimes come through correctly, sometimes don't.)
Try the same experiment in TextEdit; you'll get the requested typographical versions. And so I did, then copied the text back to Pages. Like I said, kinda shoddy for Apple's Pride & Joy word processor. AppleWorks, by the way, does it right.

Replacing quotes/apostrophes with smart quotes/apostrophes

In previous versions of Pages, when pasted content included stardard quotes or apostrophes you could do a quick replace with smart quotes/apostrophes simply by doing a find and replace. Not so with the new Pages 5.
Anyone figured out how to force Pages to do such a replace? Manually trying to do it on a long document is crazy.

What's worse: I just did a global find and replace, trying to fix four dumb quotes in an entire document that I'd cut and pasted--and Pages turned every single smart quote into a dumb quote. In all 92 pages. 1,600 smart quotes dumbified. With no way for me to smarten them up again.
Then, because I'm just as dumb as my quotes, I did the same thing with my single quotes/apostrophes.
I know how I'll be spending my afternoon.

How to replace curved apostrophe with straight apostrophe?

How do I search/replace for curved apostrophe to straight apostrophe?
How do I search/replace for curved open and close quotes to straight quotes?
I have smart quotes turned off (which turns ON curved apostrophe).
The source material was copied and pasted from email which is why the quotes are straight.
Thanks.

David, I can't imagine doing anything inside Word is easier.
Courtesy of Mike Wickham, these are the characters to use INSIDE search/replace boxes:
You can use these hex values inside the find dialogue. They can be found in the "FrameMaker Character Sets" PDF, which came with your software or can be found online.
\x22 = straight quote
\x27 = straight apostrophe
\xd4 = curly left single quote
\xd5 = curly right single quote (apostrophe)
\xd2 = curly left double quote
\xd3 = curly right double quote
Typing in the document itself, Esc+" produces a straight double quote and Ctrl+' produces a straight single quote (apostrophe).
Courtesy of David Artman:
Curved apostrophe Find: ALT+0146 (’)
Curved quotes Find: ALT+0147 (“) or ALT+0148 (”)
After this issue, I googled for FrameMaker Character Sets and downloaded it. That would be my future recommendation for everyone.
Thank you all for your help!

FM8 Quotes/apostrophes revisited

I cannot use the '/" key with Smart Quotes on. I'm running FM 8.03 as part of the Tech Comm Suite under XP SP2. My maker.ini file reads ; English curved quotes: SmartQuotes=\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 The version in Docs & Settings has no such section. Turning Smart Quotes off provides a partial resolution, as the "/' key works and I can use keyboard "shortcuts" to input the smart versions. These are the related cmds.cfg settings: <Command CharLeftDblQuote <Label Left Double Quote> <Definition \xd2>> <Command CharRightDblQuote <Label Right Double Quote> <Definition \xd3>> <Command SmartSingleQuote <ReservedLabel Long Smart Single Quote> <ReservedLabel Undo Typing> <KeySequence '> <Definition \x400>> <Command SmartDoubleQuote <Label Smart Double Quote> <KeySequence "> <Definition \x401>> What would happen if I deleted the .cache file?

What's worse: I just did a global find and replace, trying to fix four dumb quotes in an entire document that I'd cut and pasted--and Pages turned every single smart quote into a dumb quote. In all 92 pages. 1,600 smart quotes dumbified. With no way for me to smarten them up again.
Then, because I'm just as dumb as my quotes, I did the same thing with my single quotes/apostrophes.
I know how I'll be spending my afternoon.

Outlook 2010 apostrophe, single and double quotes are changes to question mark while sending mails to other internet receipient.

We are using MS Outlook 2010 as our mail client. But we have noticed that whenevr we sent a mail to any other internet mail recipient all the "apostrophe", "single" and "double quotes" have automatically converted to ?. We have
done almost all the workaround found in this site such as
1.New a message and focus on the message window > click File > Options > Mail > Spelling and Autocorrect… > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options… > AutoFormat > clear the box before “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes”
2. Used different encoding. We presently using US-ASCII for outgoing message. etc.
Need your help to sort out these issues urgently.
Waiting for a solution.

Hi,
What is your account type? IMAP, POP or Exchange?
Send an email from the webmail, ask the recipient if this issue persists.
As far as I know, this problem is always related to the encoding for outgoing messages, and here I suggest you try UTF-8:
Go to File -> Options -> Advanced -> International options -> Uncheck "Automatically select encoding for outgoing messages", then select "Unicode (UTF-8)" beside "Preferred encoding for outgoing messages" -> OK.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Epub interpreting apostrophes and em dashes as Äô and Äî

I am using InDesign CS4 to create an ePub. I have one chapter that is interpreting apostrophes and em dashes as Äô and Äî, upon exporting to ePub format. If I export chapter document separately from the book these characters are displayed correctly, but if I export entire book these characters display correctly in all but this chapter. This ePub does include a TOC Style. When I delete text containing styles that are associated with the TOC style and export, characters are displaying correctly.

The only reason I even know about this is
because I’m able to see the catastrophe in my
original text included in their responses.
That doesn't necessarily mean that your outbound mail is appearing strange to the reader. I would advise you to check that and verify that you really have a problem.
If your readers do see strange characters, it is often because you are sending rich text (which is really html mail) and they are using MS Outlook. Some possible fixes are in this note:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html
PS Getting rid of all smart punctuation (curly quotes and apostrophe's, special dashes) may also be helpful.

Pasting smart quotes and apostrophes in code view.

Sine upgrading to Dreamweaver CS5, I haven't been able to copy/paste smart quotes and apostrophes into code view without them automatically being converted to straight quotes.
For example, the following sentence (notice the curly quotes):
John’s new song is called “DW Blues”
would get pasted into Code View as:
John's new song is called "DW Blues"
Notice the smart quotes and apostrophe are replaced with single and double ticks, or "straight quotes." While this seems like a minor detail, it's extremely important to our writers and editors to have them appear on the website exactly as typed.
If I do the same copy/paste in Design View (doc type is XHTML Transitional), it appears as:
John's new song is called "DW Blues"
The characters are still replaced, and the straight quotes are then entity encoded (as expected).
This doesn't happen with other valid UTF-8 characters like ™, ®, —, etc., or with any other code editors I've used, including DW CS3.
Is there a hidden preference somewhere to disable this "feature," or is it just a bug?
Please help!

It's now 4 years since jsparacio posted this, and I just wanted to let everyone know that I had -- and am still having -- the exact same problem with Dreamweaver CS5 (running first under Windows XP, then Windows 7, and now again with Windows 8.1). So it's not just Macs that are affected.
FWIW, I have set my DW CS5 Paste preferences to the 3rd of 4 options available
    1 - Text Only
    2 - Text With Structure
    3 - Text With Structure Plus Basic Formatting
    4 - Text With Structure Plus Full Formatting
in the EDIT > PREFERENCES > Copy/Paste Preferences dialog box.
But the Paste Special command ignores this setting, giving me only the first 2 options from which to choose, with option 2 the default selection for Paste Special operations (options 3 and 4 are grayed out, and can't be selected).
According to David Sawyer McFarland's _Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual_ (O'Reilly Media, 2010), the reason these are grayed out is because I am pasting unformatted ASCII text which I generated in a program editor called "UltraEdit":
    "... Choose EDIT > PASTE SPECIAL to open the Paste Special window. Here, you can choose which of the four techniques you wish to use ... sort of. You're limited to what Dreamweaver can paste. For non-Microsoft Office products, you can use only the first two options--the others are grayed out--whereas you can choose from any of the four with text copied from Word or Excel." (McFarland, p. 81)
Regardless of such restrictions, standard copy-and-paste (CTRL+C followed by CTRL+V) works just fine for me using Dreamweaver CS4 (i.e., I have never needed to use the Paste Special command), but with DW CS5, neither Paste command (CONTROL+V or CTRL+SHIFT+V) works properly with typographic/curly/smart quotes.
All typographic quotes -- ASCII-0146 and ASCII-0147 (double quote marks); plus ASCII-0145 and ASCII-0146 (single quote marks, for quotes within a quote) -- are converted to inch (" is entered in the code) and foot (' is entered in the code) marks when I copy-and-paste text with these characters into Dreamweaver's Design View.
When I copy this same plain ASCII text directly into the code (rather than using Design View), typographic double open & close quotes are converted to the inch (") mark, and typographic single open & close quotes are converted to the foot (') mark.
The beginning of this week, I installed Dreamweaver CS5, ver. 11.0, Build 4909 under Windows 8.1 OS on my new Ultrabook. I was hoping that under Windows 8.1, DW CS5's handling of typographic quotes might improve so that I can actually use this program that I purchased 4 years ago. Alas, no such luck: I continue to have the same problem I had when I first upgraded to Dreamweaver CS5 back in August 2010 (then running under Windows XP on my desktop computer).
Back in August 2020, when I first asked about fixes, I was told to change the Title/Encoding setting of Page Properties to "Western European" -- which I tried, but it didn't work then, and it doesn't work now ... and even if it did, it wouldn't be a proper fix for the problem as I have plenty of good reasons for wanting my HTML page Title/Encoding set to Unicode (UTF-8), not Western European ("charset=iso-8859-1").
The ability to copy-and-paste typographic quotes is such a big deal for me that I chose back in August 2010 to revert to Dreamweaver CS4, which I've been using ever since.
It is *very* frustrating that, 4 years later, I still can't use this program, and shall be reverting to DW CS4, yet again.
I continue to be completely flummoxed by this. Every other program with which I am familiar converts non-typographic quotes to typographic/curly/smart quotes ... never have I seen the process automated in reverse!

Characters such as apostrophes and smart quotes turning into boxes or question marks

We recently upgraded from CF5 to CF7 and are having a problem
with previously saved text that no longer displays correctly. Some
characters (apparently, non-ASCII characters such as curly
apostrophes and smart quotes) are rendering as boxes or question
marks. We recently upgraded to Oracle 10g from Oracle 8i, but this
problem appears to be independent of the database that the text is
stored in. Here is sample code that will illustrate the problem:
<CFSET string1="Department’s">
<CFSET string2="hey—there">
<CFOUTPUT>
string1 is #string1#
 
string2 is #string2#
</CFOUTPUT>
output looks like this:
string1 is Department?s
string2 is hey?there
These are rendered as boxes when viewed in Internet Explorer.
(They show up as question marks when I copy and paste them here.)
The Demoronize UDF helps *some* of the time, but this is
still happening with a lot of text, especially text that gets
pasted from a website into a form, then saved to a database. Does
anybody have a solution for this? This is breaking my applications
and is incredibly annoying. I'd like to either replace the
problematic characters at the time they are displayed, or replace
them when they are input in the database in the first place (and go
back and update all the previously saved data to replace the
problematic characters with plain text equivalents).
Any suggestions appreciated.

I finally isolated the problematic characters so I edited the
DeMoronize UDF (available at cflib.org) by adding the following
text replacements at the bottom:
text = Replace(text, chr(8208), "-", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8209), "-", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8210), "–", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8211), "–", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8212), "—", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8213), "—", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8214), "||", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8215), "_", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8216), "‘", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8217), "’", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8218), ",", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8219), "'", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8220), "“", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8221), "”", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8222), """", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8223), """", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8226), "·", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8227), ">", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8228), ".", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8229), "..", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8230), "...", "ALL");
text = Replace(text, chr(8231), "·",
"ALL");

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