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Old 03-23-2015, 12:43 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Pretty sure they're not straight quotes, I think I see them most in public domain official & legal texts from courts and tribunals etc, and media transcripts - maybe they come from the transcription technology/services they use.
I don't understand some source files where I see grave ` + acute ´ accents being used instead of the actual curly single quotes: ‘ ’.

And typically when I run across these source files, it is just one set of quotes that are completely wrong. Example, all right single quotes = acutes, while all left single quotes = dumb version.

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This is an 'example´ of the 'mess´ I am 'talking´ about.
It is really a head scratcher.

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