Apostrophe use in WordPress posts and pages with escaping issues

[eagleangel]

I raised a ticket with Yoast at ​https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/12970 due to an issue I thought was with the Yoast SEO plugin, yet it turns out it is a flaw in the WordPress software coding.

If you have a word or phrase wrapped with apostrophes for single quote marks, or you have two or more words with apostrophes in the same paragraph, you can have issues where the apostrophes are not escaped in the output for PHP and JavaScript purposes. Because (I am assuming) Gutenberg is supposed to help those who know little to no HTML, I feel this is a serious flaw to a degree.

Whilst semantically it is incorrect to do so, most people do use apostrophes as single quote marks due to the fact that the correct character is not available on a standard computer keyboard. Those who do know about ​HTML entities can overcome this issue, but can we please have WordPress software correct the HTML output with ' when the apostrophe is typed?

Thinking about the issue, maybe double quotation marks should also be substituted with ".

The only issue I can see with this is that a forewarning would need to go out to plugin and theme developers such as WooCommerce before the changes are implemented as it may affect the way data is saved, retrieved and outputted within their plugins etc.

[eagleangel]

I forgot to mention also, that using ' in an HTML block or within the code editor mode does not help as the WordPress software substitutes ' with an apostrophe mark.

[karmatosed]

I have reported this ticket here: ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15816 as all tickets relating to the new editor Gutenberg are to be made on the GitHub repo. If you'd like to follow along to the fix discussion will happen there. Thanks.