find/replace punctuation mark (apostrophe)
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 10:09 pm
Hi there,
I'm revising a manuscript in French which has many reference titles in English imported from an English source.
In English, apostrophe is rendered using the "apostrophe" unicode punctuation mark ('APOSTROPHE Unicode: U+0027, UTF-8: 27), like : Aristotle's Distinction
In French, in order to comply to French editing norms, Apple (or Mellel?) is rendering French apostrophe by replacing on the fly the English "apostrophe" by the "right single quotation mark" unicode punctuation mark (’RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK Unicode: U+2019, UTF-8: E2 80 99), like : l’opération.
Now I would like to perform a Find Action in Mellel so as to replace English apostrophe with French apostrophe. I thought it would be easy : put one unicode character in the "Find" text box, the other in the "Replace" text box, and then run the search.
But it doesn't work because Mellel replaces the English apostrophe with a French one preceded by a conditional blank space (like when characters are not independent but are completing the previous or the next one : tête is made typing te^te. In my example : Aristotle ’s Distinction is inserted instead of Aristotle’s Distinction.
Is there a way to neutralize this behavior?
Thanks for your help.
Manu
I'm revising a manuscript in French which has many reference titles in English imported from an English source.
In English, apostrophe is rendered using the "apostrophe" unicode punctuation mark ('APOSTROPHE Unicode: U+0027, UTF-8: 27), like : Aristotle's Distinction
In French, in order to comply to French editing norms, Apple (or Mellel?) is rendering French apostrophe by replacing on the fly the English "apostrophe" by the "right single quotation mark" unicode punctuation mark (’RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK Unicode: U+2019, UTF-8: E2 80 99), like : l’opération.
Now I would like to perform a Find Action in Mellel so as to replace English apostrophe with French apostrophe. I thought it would be easy : put one unicode character in the "Find" text box, the other in the "Replace" text box, and then run the search.
But it doesn't work because Mellel replaces the English apostrophe with a French one preceded by a conditional blank space (like when characters are not independent but are completing the previous or the next one : tête is made typing te^te. In my example : Aristotle ’s Distinction is inserted instead of Aristotle’s Distinction.
Is there a way to neutralize this behavior?
Thanks for your help.
Manu