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Guess case should convert ´ (acute accent) to apostrophe

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      Guess case don't handle ´ so that if you for instance guess case on "I´m Alive" it becomes "I ´ M Alive" instead of "I'm Alive".

          [MBS-8147] Guess case should convert ´ (acute accent) to apostrophe

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment -

          I opened a forum thread in https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acute-and-grave-accents-as-apostrophes/746180 to get some more feedback on this.

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment - I opened a forum thread in https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acute-and-grave-accents-as-apostrophes/746180 to get some more feedback on this.

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment -

          If we are fairly sure that almost all uses are just meant to be apostrophes then we could change it to be automatically replaced by them - it does seem a bit strong a step, but...

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment - If we are fairly sure that almost all uses are just meant to be apostrophes then we could change it to be automatically replaced by them - it does seem a bit strong a step, but...

          jesus2099 added a comment -

          There are many recordings and tracks added with space acute space instead of apostrophe in their titles, because of this "bug".

          I have a search for them and I regularly fix them, but it's endless.

          I was really wondering why so many stuff like this...
          Today, I understood the root cause of this, and it's exactly this ticket!

          Guess case don't handle ´ so that if you for instance guess case on "I´m Alive" it becomes "I ´ M Alive" instead of "I'm Alive".

          reosarevok

          Well, why should it handle U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT as an apostrophe?

          Because apparently "many" tracklists copied from internet do contain acute instead of apostrophe.

          jesus2099 added a comment - There are many recordings and tracks added with space acute space instead of apostrophe in their titles, because of this "bug". I have a search for them and I regularly fix them , but it's endless. I was really wondering why so many stuff like this... Today, I understood the root cause of this, and it's exactly this ticket! Guess case don't handle ´ so that if you for instance guess case on "I´m Alive" it becomes "I ´ M Alive" instead of "I'm Alive". reosarevok Well, why should it handle U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT as an apostrophe? Because apparently "many" tracklists copied from internet do contain acute instead of apostrophe.
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          Ulrich Klauer added a comment - - edited

          Of the 28 artists that currently have an acute in their name, there are two for which it might be correct (one has a name consisting of symbols only, the other is Thai, and I don't know the Thai writing system to decide whether it's right or not). There are also 1396 track names; I had a look at a random sample of 20, and the acute is never right there - should either be an apostrophe or be removed altogether ("No. 32 Buth thou dids´t not leave").

          Ulrich Klauer added a comment - - edited Of the 28 artists that currently have an acute in their name, there are two for which it might be correct (one has a name consisting of symbols only, the other is Thai, and I don't know the Thai writing system to decide whether it's right or not). There are also 1396 track names; I had a look at a random sample of 20, and the acute is never right there - should either be an apostrophe or be removed altogether ("No. 32 Buth thou dids´t not leave").
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          Component/s Original: Editing interface [ 10101 ]
          Issue Type Original: Bug [ 1 ] New: Improvement [ 4 ]
          Summary Original: Guess case don't handle ´ New: Guess case should convert ´ (acute accent) to apostrophe

          Ulrich Klauer added a comment -

          The non-combining acute accent has few legitimate uses, but is relatively often used instead of an apostrophe by people (in particular MacOS users in my experience, for some reason). So this does have a point.

          Ulrich Klauer added a comment - The non-combining acute accent has few legitimate uses, but is relatively often used instead of an apostrophe by people (in particular MacOS users in my experience, for some reason). So this does have a point.

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment -

          Well, why should it handle U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT as an apostrophe?

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment - Well, why should it handle U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT as an apostrophe?

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