I'm having some trouble associating PIDS....I think it is because of 'apostrophes'.

Here's an example

Basri's Alcolyte (notice that the apostrophe is straight) vs

Basri’s Acolyte (notice that the apostrophe is directional) ..... BTW this is the PID for "Basri's Alcolyte"

The card with the straight apostrophe will not auto-associate with the "directional" apostrophe in the PID.

My keyboard creates the straight apostrophe, which means my checklists containing apostrophes will not auto-associated with PIDS using the directional apostrophe (which I think is what TCDB defaults to when creating a PID).

Is there a way around this or is my ignorance showing?

TCDB defaults to what is actually in the Name field when the member says "Create PID". That's all. Simply, whoever entered in the earlier checklists either used the "wrong" apostrophe ( ` vs. ' ) or had used Word (with auto-quote marks on) to create the checklists. This is why we need to be super-careful when creating and yploading checklists, that we are using the "universal" punctuation.

I've run into this problem.  I've seen duplicate PIDs for the same player, each had a different "apostrophe". I've also seen the accent mark used as an apostrophe.

MS Word calls them "straight" and "smart", but the database treats them as separate characters:

straight ' and smart ’ and accent ´

The only solution I can think of is to have the database ignore punctuation in names.

Put the second version as an alias of the first, on the PID screen. Then it with pick up both styles.

But which apostrophe?  Admin needs to designate the site's official apostrophe for PIDs.  Then the other two apostrophes can be added to that PID's aliases.

Let the players union decide!