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Old 07-19-2020, 07:56 PM   #133
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
To be honest, I think smartypants is purposely converting the straight single/double quotation marks in that example to single/double slanted prime marks. In many typographic circles, that IS correct for latitude/longitude or inches/feet.
Yes.

′ PRIME (U+2032) + ″ DOUBLE PRIME (U+2033) are the correct symbols.

Side Note: And don't confuse these with RIGHT SINGLE/DOUBLE QUOTE:

’ (U+2019) + ” (U+201D)

these are curly in most fonts, while the primes are perfectly straight lines:

′ + ″ (Primes)
’ + ” (Quotations)


Ebook Side Note: Personally, I convert primes back to their dumb equivalents... because I've found some old devices (Nook) don't have those two symbols. But for Text-to-Speech reasons, the proper characters should be used.

Side Note #2: And for more details/info on some obscure typographical questions, see "Punctuation rules of thumb?", especially Jellby's + my posts.

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