wptexturize inserts opening single quote instead of apostrophe

[paulschreiber]

In the following example:
Here are a number of "pick 'em" games

WordPress inserts an opening single quote:
Here are a number of “pick ‘em” games

Correct behaviour would be to insert an apostrophe (close quote):
Here are a number of “pick ’em” games

[dmchale]

Unable to reproduce on my system (Flat theme, WP 4.0).

Copied and pasted OP's example into Text tab in TinyMCE, saved, and confirmed that I received the correct close quote character that is expected, not an opening single quote as reported.

[miqrogroove]

I am recently aware of this bug. While working on 4.0 alpha I noticed the word 'em is strangely absent from the default cockney filter. It can be fixed using a plugin, but I would be in favor of officially adopting 'em as a default word.

[pento]

[31249] missed the ticket.

[miqrogroove]

Thank you for the commit, pento.

Let me wonder out loud.. is this going to become typographically messy if someone wants to write 'employee of the month' rather than "employee of the month" at some point? Now the former would be somewhat broken and perhaps the static string replacement is not the best strategy.

[pento]

I'm not too concerned about that. We haven't had any complaints (that I'm aware of) for the other cockney words that also match real words - tis -> tissue; til -> tile, tiller, tilt; bout -> boutique.

If it becomes an issue, we can revisit the technique we use.