# Rdoc & Apostrophes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-apostrophes/147577>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 3, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-apostrophes/147577 "2008-09-03T10:53:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![jtoy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jtoy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtoy)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-apostrophes/147577/1 "2008-09-03T10:53:16Z")

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Rdoc seems to substitute all apostrophes with some fancy versions of  
them

‘apostrophe’ -\> ‘apostrophes’

Is there a way to disable this?

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**Author:** ![jtoy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jtoy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtoy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-apostrophes/147577/2 "2008-09-27T18:50:22Z")

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Jason Thorn wrote:

> Rdoc seems to substitute all apostrophes with some fancy versions of  
> them
> 
> ‘apostrophe’ → ‘apostrophes’
> 
> Is there a way to disable this?  
> What version of RDoc (rdoc --version) are you using? Thank you!

## Tony

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