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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have seen plenty of auto-smart routines getting single quotes backwards when it's supposed to be a left facing apostrophe in front of a word with no closing quote.
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Yep. That's the common 'tis and "go get 'em" issue. Or "Back in the '80s". Not completely avoidable (well, actually the decades thing is), but at least tameable by my parsing of a custom exception file for commonly used words of this nature.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Also, I've see these routines get the left facing double quote backwards when a left facing apostrophe is in front.
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I don't. What I usually see is smartening routines taking the rap for MS Word's age-old penchant for reversing the typographic closing double quote when one immediately follows an emdash (whenever the autocorrect "Replace as you Type" setting for replacing straight quotes with "smart" quotes is enabled in Word). Haven't seen anything like that in a long while with my SmartyPants-based plugins (except when feeding it tag/entity soup disguised as an ebook and/or
seeking to thwart it with weird-ass situations that almost never happen in real life).