Last modified: 2014-01-05 18:34:10 UTC
This comes from a discussion on WP:fr focus on switch from the Vertical typewriter apostrophe ( ' ) to the typographic apostrophe ( ’ ) in titles or texts see : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Sondage/Apostrophe_typographique We need, if the discussion succeeds to switch to title with typographic apostrophe, that the autocompletion treats as equivalent all apostrophes like : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27#Computing or http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(typographie)#En_informatique Example in WP:de http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L’École_des_filles completion works with: l’ecole (typographic apostrophe) but doesn't work with: L'École (vertical apostrophe) This also is needed for the autocompletion process in the help box when you add a internal link when you are contributor.
Cirrus actually maps both those apostrophes to spaces for prefix search and "go" search as of the last release. This was done with Bug 58702 which is basically a duplicate of this bug that I made because I didn't search hard enough for this bug. OTOH, because we don't let Cirrus highlight the search results, this leads to the funky behaviour that you see documented in Bug 52656: while cirrus spits out a nice list of potential matches for prefix search the highlighting only highlights _exact_ matches ignoring ascii folding and other sorts of character transformations.
