basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings

From	Tim <timothygill07040@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings
Date	2011-11-04 12:41 -0700
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I know some programming though not much JavaScript and I have to
modify an existing JavaScript program that has an array assignment
statement like

   labels[0] = "This does work for the typical case.";

I need to change the "does" to "doesn't" where the single quote needs
to be the proper curly single quote, because the font used to display
this is a nice serif font.  But the following change,  using the
"decimal numeric character reference" for right single quote
&#8217;     does not work:

   labels[0] = "This doesn&#8217;t work for the typical case.";

I've looked online for 30 minutes and have tried concatenation and
eval, but that does not work either.

I just need to make this one change and get back to some other work.
Anyone have the answer?

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basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings Tim <timothygill07040@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 12:41 -0700
  Re: basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-11-04 22:05 +0200
    Re: basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings Timothy Gill <setsee@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 13:42 -0700
      Re: basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 21:40 +0000
      Re: basic Q on enclosing curly quotation/quot characters into strings "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-11-04 23:50 +0200

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