Smart quotes don't work before lower-case s

[HarryRAR]

This is a formatting problem. If I put single quotes around a word starting with lower-case s, the first quote mark is displayed the wrong way round. This happens whether or not I use the visual text editor.

i.e. 'Spiral' is displayed correctly as ‘Spiral’, but 'salmon' displays as ’salmon’. You can see a couple of examples in this post:

​http://heracliteanfire.net/archives/1159

Presumably lower-case s is a special case because it has to recognise possessives.

I'm using 2.1.3; it also doesn't work in a site I've got which is running 2.0.5

I don't know if it's relevant, but the site is running on PHP version 4.4.4 and MySQL version 4.1.21-standard. Apparently.

[Dickie]

This is the same as this ticket

​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1258

[HarryRAR]

Oh, sorry about that. Bad searching on my part.