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Old 10-29-2023, 07:13 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by droopy View Post
This is what I am concluding, Comfy.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It seems that Calibre's full-text search is particular when it comes to apostrophes. We must do both smart/curly quotes and "dumb" quotes to get all search hits.
They are different charaters and there is no such thing as a smart quote. Wordprocessors have “smart quoting”, where
' -> ‘ or ’ and is sometimes wrong, messing up ’tis or ’90s
" -> “ or ”
<< ->«
>> -> »
It’s using very simple context and lookup table.

' Typewriter single quote. Something like it can be used in transliterated words or dictionaries. Otherwise only for strings in programming.
‘ open quote
’ close quote or apostrophe
′ single prime (feet, minutes)

" Typewriter double quote. Only for Strings in programming.
“ Open double quote
” Close double quote
(these will be different in German etc)
″ double prime (inches, seconds)

The ` left of 1 is not a quote, it's diacritic and your keyboard map should have it as dead for à è ì ò ù ỳ


Unfortunately people creating or editing metadata can mess up.

Typewriters omitted ‘ ’ “ ” { } [ ] 1 0 (used I and O) and often ! and currency symbols using l backspace . and S, L, Y etc with l, -, = etc.

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