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pholy · 08-16-2011, 07:16 PM

The simplest tool, but neither fast nor reliable, is a text editor and your eyeballs and fingertips...

To be more useful... What kind of text file do you have? Is it 7-bit ASCII or UTF-8? Is it html or xhtml? And, most importantly, is the apostrophe character the same as the right quote? If not, then a simple character substitution would work. However, they are usually the same, so something more sophisticated is required.

I use quoter to change straight quotes to curly quotes in my html, and straight apostrophes to right single quotes. I don't know if it will do single quotes to double quotes, however. I found it with google, and it is supplied as a lex/yacc source, so it could be modified, I suppose.

08-16-2011, 07:16 PM	#2
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	The simplest tool, but neither fast nor reliable, is a text editor and your eyeballs and fingertips... To be more useful... What kind of text file do you have? Is it 7-bit ASCII or UTF-8? Is it html or xhtml? And, most importantly, is the apostrophe character the same as the right quote? If not, then a simple character substitution would work. However, they are usually the same, so something more sophisticated is required. I use quoter to change straight quotes to curly quotes in my html, and straight apostrophes to right single quotes. I don't know if it will do single quotes to double quotes, however. I found it with google, and it is supplied as a lex/yacc source, so it could be modified, I suppose.