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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
Yes, sorry, you're both right of course.
It will have to be [a-zA-Z]’[ .,;:!?—] then, which depending upon the text, may mean having to look at quite a number of ’
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Yep - which begs the question - why bother.
In more than a few non-US/Can publications I've found that real apostrophes are used where they ought be used (contractions and possessives) and single quotes are used around dialogue and quotes. If that's true then maybe just convert the quotes and leave apostrophes alone to fulfill their designated purpose.
<sa-joke>We'll have a shortage of closing single quotes if they keep getting used as apostrophes, just as there's a shortage of semicolons since Algol and is successors started using them as full stops.<\sa-joke>
BR