Unicode tagging of ' (apostrophe) in Find results list

[walt.farrell]

This is not new with 1.7.0.270, as it existed at least in .258, too.

I can't tell if it has been reported before, but if you do a Find and one of the results includes the apostrophe character then it shows up in the results list as <U+2019> instead of showing up as ’ which looks odd and can possibly confuse the user.

(Note: I entered it as a straight apostrophe, ', and Publisher automatically curled it. This is in English text.)

[Jon P]

Hi walt,

I've logged this, thanks!

[MikeTO]

Is this issue still on the log of issues? I just realized today why Find has seemed unreliable to me until now. Unlike most programs, Publisher won't find a directional apostrophe when you search on a straight apostrophe. Now that I know about it it's easy to work around so it's not a big deal, it just doesn't work the way I expected it to.

Using Publisher 1.93 macOS.

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

26 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Is this issue still on the log of issues? I just realized today why Find has seemed unreliable to me until now. Unlike most programs, Publisher won't find a directional apostrophe when you search on a straight apostrophe. Now that I know about it it's easy to work around so it's not a big deal, it just doesn't work the way I expected it to.

The issue was just about the way the results list was displayed, with <U+2019> for a curly single quote rather than the actual ’ character. That seems to be fixed in 1.9.2.

The actual Find processing is still quite literal. If you ask for ' you don't get results that include the ’ character. An option for that seems like it might make a good feature request, though it gets complicated if you consider all the different kinds of quotation marks that exist in various languages.

[MikeTO]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

The issue was just about the way the results list was displayed, with <U+2019> for a curly single quote rather than the actual ’ character. That seems to be fixed in 1.9.2.

The actual Find processing is still quite literal. If you ask for ' you don't get results that include the ’ character. An option for that seems like it might make a good feature request, though it gets complicated if you consider all the different kinds of quotation marks that exist in various languages.

Thanks, I'll file a feature request for the actual Find matching algorithm. The general rule is that Find should match things expansively unless you click Match Case.

Both Microsoft Word and Apple Pages handle it this way. If Match Case is unchecked then typing a straight quote into the Find field will match a curly quote. If Match Case is checked it will not match curly quotes.