Problem with apostrophe in visual mode

[Martin_Jean]

I am typing some text in French using both R Markdown and Quarto documents. Both have the same behavior.

I typed the following in the Source mode of RStudio:

Note that the two lines are identical except for the apostrophe (the second one is the appropriate for text in French). When I switch to the visual mode, both lines are the same and I lost the appropriate French apostrophe.

Any clue on how to deal with this?

Many thanks!

[cderv]

Hi,

Just curious, how do you insert the French apostrophe with you keyboard ?
I am French too, and never payed much attention to that.

What do you get in your rendered document ? Visual editor is for Markdown sources, and it will auto correct to markdown syntax. It is possible the apostrophe will render ok, especially in a document with lang: fr

Anyway, this would be an issue with RStudio IDE and visual editor and not directly R Markdown. I am moving the post in the right place.

[Martin_Jean]

Merci pour votre réponse.

The French apostrophe can be directly inserted on macOS by typing option-shift-è on a CSA French-Canada keyboard or option-shift-4 on a French keyboard.

I am also coming to the conclusion that RStudio IDE rather than R Markdown has an issue.

Here are the results after rendering the following simple document, both in R Markdown and Quarto:

## Test avec l'apostrophe

Voici comment est rendu les apostrophes:

-   En tapant l'apostrophe droite

-   En tapant l’apostrophe courbe.

• results are all the same (rendering R Markdown and Quarto, to HTML and PDF:

My conclusion:

• Rendering takes care of apostrophes given the expected results
• The RStudio IDE removes the French apostrophe the switching from source to visual, and back to source mode.
• When typing the French apostrophe in visual mode, and switching to source mode, the apostrophe is now \' .
• It's a behavior that is different from other apps that use Markdown, at least on macOS.

[cderv]

@Martin_Jean

I am also coming to the conclusion that RStudio IDE rather than R Markdown has an issue.

then you should open an issue if none exists already in the RStudio IDE github repo. This is possibly an issue with the visual editor