[no-unescaped-entities] single quote

[tleunen]

I'm having the no-unescaped-entities thrown when a single quote is used.

Example

<div>I'm not ok</div>

[ljharb]

That's correct. You should either:
a) use {"I'm not ok"} to make it explicit, or
b) use ‘ (a curly quote) because straight quotes are typographically incorrect.

[tleunen]

hmm I see. But writing with curly quotes is quite painful :)
Thanks for the quick answer!

[ljharb]

@tleunen on a mac, ⌥-] or ⌥-}, on windows, alt 0145 or alt 0146 :-p

[julienw]

b) use ‘ (a curly quote) because straight quotes are typographically incorrect.

I think you wanted to mention ’ instead of ‘ :)

[duane]

Naturally, there are other uses for ' than contractions and right single quotes. It's disappointing to see a typographic defense of all things for restricting valid input.

[duane]

Notably, ASCII 39 (') is primarily apostrophe, aka '. This is how most fonts render the glyph; the only subculture that uses this as a right quote are japanese fonts that render it as a right single quotation mark. Furthermore, using single quotation marks in prose is vanishingly rare these days, whereas english contractions and possessives are as common as ever. You're hamstringing prose to support the typographer for no demonstrative benefit in the general case.

[julienw]

You can disable the rule if you don't like it.

I'm finding it useful, especially because github highlighting engine goes crazy with an alone apostrophe.

[ljharb]

@duane english contractions and possessives should only be curly quotes too. The benefit is that curly quotes can't enclose HTML attribute values, which means the presence of a curly quote is never a bug, but the presence of a straight quote might be one.

[duane]

@ljharb

@duane english contractions and possessives should only be curly quotes too.

This is incorrect; it's an apostrophe, and it is wildly different than a quotation mark.

[julienw]

There are a lot of symbols that look alike. The Wikipedia page is very clear.
You can use ’ as an apostrophe. You're right, a quotation mark ’ is not correct. Even if that looks alike in most fonts.

[ljharb]

@duane technically ' is not an apostrophe; ’ is. ' is only used for notating "minutes" in degree-minute-second notation.