String.Replace not replacing apostrophe

Question

I'm trying to replace apostrophes with a string, for some reason the method just doesn't find the apostrophe in the string. Here is the URL that just doesn't seem to work:

"/news/2012/march/cameron’s-crackdown-on-whiplash-–-why-the-minimum-speed-requirement-is-oddly-suspicious"
.Replace("'", "'");

Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

The replace doesn't work because ’ and ' are not the same character.

And maybe you forgot to capture the result, your code is too short to tell.

Answer 2

’ and ' are different characters. You also need to assign it somewhere (strings are immutable), Replace() returns new string:

myString = myString.Replace("’", "'");