[LH4291] Search doesn't find apostrophe

Scrivener Windows Beta (Archived)
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Hi,

Using RC5, I tried searching for the string kid’s in my manuscript, but it came up as “Not Found”. On further investigation, it can’t find any string containing an apostrophe.

Christopher

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This has been reported before [url][LH4291] Words with apostrophes do not show in search results. - #2 by jje]. The problem is that Scrivener thinks smart (curly/typographic) quotes and the ’ (straight quote) are different. You can get round it by typing the curly quote character in the search box (Alt-0145) or use Regex (a period/full stop = any character, so if you have a mix of smart and “dumb” quotes, use Regex to search for kid.s)

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Thanks for the reply, regex seems like a good workaround. Anyway, glad it’s on the bug fix radar.