Please ask Apple to support proper apostrophes when expanding contractions

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14 years ago

It’s a simple idea: When you type “cant” on your iOS device, wouldn’t you at least like the option that it expand into “can’t” (U+2019), not the ASCII “can't”?

It’s 2012, and Unicode is everywhere — including in iOS’s own software keyboard. (Tap and hold on e.g. the normal apostrophe to be able to select typographer’s single quotes.) Why should contractions expand into ugly, 1995-era ASCII representations?

Apple itself, for example, wouldn’t use an ASCII apostrophe in its own marketing content; for example, there are a number of apostrophes on apple.com/ipad, all of which are “educated.”

I submitted a feature request to Apple (rdar bug ID: #11156286) proposing that they at least add such an option to their General › Keyboard options.

If you agree, please “dupe” #11156286, as this counts as a vote in Apple’s system. https://bugreport.apple.com/

Thanks!

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