Nigel Henry-3 wrote: > > I'm having a problem setting my address properly on a French site. The > address > includes the line, 2 Chemin de L'AA. L'AA is composed of L plus apostrophe > plus AA, in case you are seeing this different. When I set L'AA in my > address > box on this site, it views as set, but when I validate the address on the > site it comes back as L\'AA, which if you arn't seeing this, is L plus > backslash plus apostrophe plus AA. This is really wierd. > > Is the single quote the same as an apostrophe? If not, where do I find the > apostrophe character. > > I'm using KDE, and a gb keyboard layout, and have also tried out the ca > layout, which I use a lot for french accented characters on my qwerty > keyboard. > > Posting from the ancient FC2, and Kmail. > > btw: I do have other Fedora versions installed, and used up to F8, but FC2 > is > an old faithfull, and plods along on this machine, with virtually no > problems, apart from the mouse pointer freezing on the odd occasion. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Nigel. > > Depends on the context. The single quote has special meaning to the shell. In text it is an apotrophe. Guessing, the backslash keeps the quote in place until the mail program can do its own internal parsing as a part of the address. Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-the-single-quote-character-the-same-as-an-apostrophe-tp17631913p17632398.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
