Thread: Removing smart quotes
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Old 03-06-2008, 10:32 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
There are different language conventions also. It would be nice if you tagged text instead so you can choose which quote to use in the reader. For example: <q>He said <q>fish</q>!</q>

Or is smart quotes something that display quotes correctly depending on language setting?
"Smart quotes" are "curly quotes". Most files which use them use either UTF-8 or the Windows Latin 1 (1252) codepage. Unfortunately people who use other codepages generally won't see them displayed correctly.
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