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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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).
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IIRC - the first instance of wrong way quotes after a long dash I came across was in DISOSS, which was long before Word saw the light of day. Maybe MS inherited it from from Star when they poached Sinofsky from Xerox.
Even if it did originate at MS, how come it manifested elsewhere. MS don't have a track record of making their code available in the public domain. That's the problem with disassembling, as well as filching the IPR you inherit the bugs.
BR
DISOSS - a doco system that ran under CICS, its VM equivalent was PROFS. Mainframe stuff from a prior century, might have even been the one before last 