[Hidden-tech] Text Manipulation Problem

[Don Lesser]

Agreed. What I usually do is turn off "Smart Quotes" in Word, then copy the
smart quote and paste it into a Find box and type the quote into the replace
box. Same with apostrophe. This gives me straight ASCII versions.

Don Lesser
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Text Manipulation Problem

Quote-replying in-kind.

On 22 Oct 2017, at 18:08, Robert Heller wrote:

> You do know that an apostrophe is not really an apostrophe and a 
> double quote mark is not really a double quote mark.  That is the 
> ASCII apostrophe
> (') and
> ASCII double quote mark (") seem to be avoided like the plague.  Many 
> "modern"
> programs (mailers, wordprocessors, etc.) want to use the alt 
> characters off in the world beyond 0x7f...  I get that all of the 
> time. :-)

In fact, "smart quotes" are built-in with many modern operating systems (OS
X/macOS, at least)! In any stock text input area on a Mac, you can bring up
the contextual menu and go into "Substitutions" and enable/disable "Smart
Quotes". Fortunately, as it bears on the subject of avoiding encoding
issues, the ASCII delimiters shouldn't be a problem in anything encoded in
UTF-8, since it's a strict superset of ASCII.

Eli
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