Thread: Single quotes to double quotes?
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Old 10-08-2010, 02:04 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by lunixer View Post
Does anybody know of a way that I can take an ebook and convert all of the single quotes in it to double quotes, while leaving the apostrophes alone, and converting what were previously double quotes to single?
Can I ask, if I may, why you would bother? I have lots of print books from the UK and commonwealth which use single quotes where US books use double quotes. It makes so little difference to me that I had to go to the books to check whether they used single or double quotes.

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