[Tex/LaTex] Apostrophes not displaying under Mac OS

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This is the MacOS's Texshop disappearing apostrophe problem. 

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

is added to the document preamble.

Within the program:

Preferences=>Source is set to UTF8.

Preferences=>Misc has pTex support unchecked (this solved the problem for many, but not for me.

Under

Edit=>Substitutions none are checked.

I have tried ' and ’ (prime and option-shift-right bracket) but the latter should always yield apostrophes but it doesn't.

MWE:

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[10pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\KOMAoptions{headings=small}
\usepackage{kpfonts}
\usepackage[paperwidth=6in,paperheight=9in]{geometry}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}  %for strikeout text
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{idxlayout} %%to fix issues with index
\makeindex
\title{}
\author{}
\date{}

\begin{document}

    Apostrophes

Joe’s shoes are missing. 
So are Sam's.
The person's shoes.


\end{document}

Best Answer

I had this exact problem recently! I tried two things:

  1. I added \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, with no success. I tried another, related package approach, but had no luck with that, either.
  2. I manually replaced the offending apostrophes with ones I typed freshly. This worked. To make this more efficient, you might consider doing a find-and-replace. This worked!

I also used XeLaTeX instead of LaTeX, for a related issue. It might be that if I had just used XeLaTeX from the beginning, I wouldn't have needed to manually fix all those apostrophes.

Lastly, the plural of apostrophe is apostrophes, without the apostrophe-s. ;)

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