wptexturize does not handle mid-word italics properly

[chriscombsdc]

When referring to the name of a publication, it is necessary to italicize the publication but not the possessive ending.

This leads to wptexturize making the wrong assumption about whether to use a "left" or a "right" quote.

Example post content:

the <em>Daily Mail</em>'s report

Current output:

the Daily Mail‘s report

Desired output:

the Daily Mail’s report

[lukecavanagh]

@chriscombsdc

All <em> should do is just make the text within that italic.

<em>italic text here</em>

So on the left and right quotes do you mean for double quotes?

​https://codex.wordpress.org/Fun_Character_Entities
​https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wptexturize

[chriscombsdc]

Hi @lukecavanagh, the mid-word </em> tag is causing the single quote to get the wrong direction when run through wptexturize.

[gitlost]

See #18549. As mentioned there, you could try the plugin ​pap-texturize-1.0.0.zip.

[ellatrix]

I believe this is a duplicate of #18549. Feel free to reopen if I'm mistaken!