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Rule "Wrong apostrophe character"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	Wrong apostrophe character
Message:	An accent character was used instead of an apostrophe.
Category:	Typography (ID: TYPOGRAPHY)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/punctuation-guide/#what-is-an-apostrophe
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	What´s the problem? Correction suggestion: What's, What’s ... and what`ll you do? Correction suggestion: what'll, what’ll ... but who´d do it? Correction suggestion: who'd, who’d ... and that`d be a problem for us. Correction suggestion: that'd, that’d
Correct sentences for comparison:	What’s the problem? ... as follows: (`s, ´t, ...). Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas played a part in the...
ID:	WRONG_APOSTROPHE [6]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-22 22:33:09 +0100)

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