Module:fi-nominals

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Module:fi-nominals

I just noticed that in Finnish we use apostrophe (’) and not typewriter apostrophe (') to mark the border of syllables in inflected forms such as raa’at. The templates Module:fi-nominals and Module:fi-verbs have been made with the typewriter apostrophe, however. Would you be so kind as to fix it?

Hekaheka (talk)16:33, 17 October 2017

Are you sure that this is how people actually write things, though? An official standard doesn't mean much if nobody uses it. I'd expect that regular internetters use the normal apostrophe and not the fancy one.

Rua (mew)16:48, 17 October 2017

Internetters do whatever is easiest without knowing right from wrong, but newspapers and book publishers use the apostrophe. I must confess that I didn't know that there's a difference until recently. I modified the templates myself - your code is clear enough to figure out what to change. I'm in the process of rooting out the printer's apostrophe from the Finnish entries.

Hekaheka (talk)09:20, 19 October 2017

The old apostrophe should probably be kept as a redirect, so that people using it can find things.

Rua (mew)10:29, 19 October 2017

Not necessary. I have checked that such searches get automatically redirected.

Hekaheka (talk)10:51, 19 October 2017

Ah ok.

Rua (mew)10:51, 19 October 2017