Well if you ask me personally, it should be "James's" and anyone who disagrees fails English class in school. Of course, I don't make the rules; in fact no one person does and that's the problem here. I doubt there is a big enough number of people who care to customise such a fine detail, so for your product I would just use the rules obeyed in the original text. Or if you don't want to customise on a per-text basis, the rule used by the majority of texts. Or just the easier one, since it's technically correct.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you. So, we’ll stick to the orthography of the original text (which in these two cases, Shakespeare and Austen, already were obeying to the majority rule of `’s` instead of `’`).
In our generic product, though, users will be able to select and apply their preferences for orthotypography, i.e. such things like single or double quotes (Oxford vs Chicago, British vs American). But when it comes to spelling per se, we will leave it up to the user to go with the ‘correct’ form of English of their liking, and leave the input text untouched.
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Well if you ask me personally, it should be "James's" and anyone who disagrees fails English class in school. Of course, I don't make the rules; in fact no one person does and that's the problem here. I doubt there is a big enough number of people who care to customise such a fine detail, so for your product I would just use the rules obeyed in the original text. Or if you don't want to customise on a per-text basis, the rule used by the majority of texts. Or just the easier one, since it's technically correct.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you. So, we’ll stick to the orthography of the original text (which in these two cases, Shakespeare and Austen, already were obeying to the majority rule of `’s` instead of `’`).
In our generic product, though, users will be able to select and apply their preferences for orthotypography, i.e. such things like single or double quotes (Oxford vs Chicago, British vs American). But when it comes to spelling per se, we will leave it up to the user to go with the ‘correct’ form of English of their liking, and leave the input text untouched.