On Tuesday 03 June 2008 22:09, TNWestTex wrote: > 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 I've just been back to the site, and whereas the address had previously shown L\'AA, it now shows L'AA, which is correct. It's a bit of a mystery, but the site for my personal info is at least now showing my correct address. Thanks for the reply Robert. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
