https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138258
--- Comment #14 from bintoro <[email protected]> --- I think there’s a misunderstanding here. It looks like the reporter is trying to find quotes, not apostrophes. It just so happens that the right single quote (U+2019) is the same character as the apostrophe. I checked the attachment from comment 11, and of course they couldn’t reproduce, since they were testing with an incorrectly typeset string (’hi’) that has right single quotes on both sides. When using the correct quotation style (‘hi’), searching for `'` only matches the closing quote. This is the issue. The bug report is confusing because the reporter doesn’t distinguish between apostrophes and single quotes. But what they’re ultimately trying to achieve (find quotes) is a valid request. The fix for bug 117643 was only intended to address apostrophes, so the current behaviour is fully expected. AFAIK there has never been magic matching for quotes (single or double), but I agree it would be good to have. MS Word has it. (In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #13) > It's now impossible in Writer to search for just the plain ascii ' > character, as Writer insists on matching smartquote characters as well now. You’re commenting in the wrong bug. And you can search for exact characters by checking Find and Replace > Other options > Regular expressions. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
