When asking for a regex to detect slanded ’ it always uses ' as the match character

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Describe the Bug

I was asking for a regex to normalize some text. I have the slanted ticks (’) in my text, but i want them to turn into ’ just to keep things simple. I was confused why it wasn’t matching, and thats when i realized even when i explictly asked the AI to use the slanted tick to replace with the regular one, it was looking for two standard ticks, so obviously not matching.

Steps to Reproduce

command + L while selecting a target string of text, ask the ai to “write a regex that detects ’ in text, and replace it with ’ output the result”

Provide a string containing the match character as your target, and notice it generates a regex that doesnt work as it always uses the wrong tick for matching.

Expected Behavior

Non-standard characters should be supported, especially when i am explicit about what i want.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.44.9 VSCode Version: 1.93.1 Commit: 316e524257c2ea23b755332b0a72c50cf23e1b00 Date: 2024-12-26T21:58:59.149Z Electron: 30.5.1 Chromium: 124.0.6367.243 Node.js: 20.16.0 V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0 OS: Darwin arm64 24.0.0

Additional Information

This totally stumped me for 30 mins because I’m stupid and these characters look similar.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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I think something might have been lost in translation here, your post looks like you’re talking about replacing a character with the exact same character :slight_smile:

I think the forum platform might be responsible, which makes this tricky. Let’s say:

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Would you maybe be able to re-state it using those (A = straight single quote, B = apostrophe/close-single – technically different in unicode but probably equivalent here, C = backtick)?