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→DavidB4-bot replacing ’ with ': re
Hi DavidB4, I'm just curious, why is your bot replacing ’ with ' when it comes to apostrophes? --[[User:Liberaltears|Liberaltears]]<sup>'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|Just say no to quid pro joe!]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|Free Roger Stone!]]'''''</sup> 21:44, 19 May 2020 (EDT)
Hi DavidB4, I'm just curious, why is your bot replacing ’ with ' when it comes to apostrophes? --[[User:Liberaltears|Liberaltears]]<sup>'''''[[User:Liberaltears/mail|Just say no to quid pro joe!]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|Free Roger Stone!]]'''''</sup> 21:44, 19 May 2020 (EDT)
:It's a minor thing, but the ’ is an [[ASCII]] character, while the ' is [[unicode]]. When it comes to fonts, the ASCII apostrophe is sometimes displayed oddly by some software, while the unicode one typically looks as it should. For example, Apple and Microsoft differ in how this is displayed, but they agree on how the UNICOD one is shown. Therefore, the unicode one is generally favored. Some search engine spiders allegedly prefer unicode, thus ranking pages using the unicode ones higher (of course, search engines try not to tell all their secrets though, so it's hard to be sure) than pages using the ASCII version. I know they look very similar, but if you look at [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Maggie_Hassan&action=history edits when this change is made], you will see that a few [[Byte|bytes]] have been removed from the page. This is because unicode uses a smaller reference number for it than ASCII does. Here is an article which touches on the topic, in case you want a better explanation.: [https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html]
:I don't mind if the "wrong" (ASCII) one is used, but since the bot is semi-automated anyway, I figure it might as well change them when it notices them. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 23:07, 19 May 2020 (EDT)