Text editors/word processors have no problem with a closing quote following an emdash. None whatsoever. Certain incarnations of certain popular algorithms for "smartening" punctuation, however, have been known to produce the effect you've pointed out; when they're asked to magically fix all the "dumb" punctuation that someone typed into a text editor.
Last edited by DiapDealer; 04-12-2014 at 10:07 PM.
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