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Originally Posted by Quoth
I wonder does the old Nook without them work if the epub has an embedded font like Georgia that does have them?
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Don't see why not.
The only reason why the Nook couldn't display many "foreign"/"rare" characters was because of poor character support across the device's fonts.
(If I remember correctly, the Nook also didn't have a fallback font like Kindles with Code2000, so if the selected font didn't have it... you got the '?'.)
Even many Eastern European characters were missing (like 'č' or 'Š').
But in 2020, I wouldn't worry about it. Just use the proper characters.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
SmartQuotes is actually dumb and broken. '89 gives ‘89 instead of ’89. Also on LO it does “ instead of ” after — or …!
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I ranted about that back in 2014 too... lol, I even ranted about primes:
Read
Post #19+ in "[old thread] non breaking spaces (* and *) automatically removed".
Not
too much has changed since then, but there have been some enhancements:
- Prime/double-prime detection
- Calibre smartens these fine now.
- Quote-after-em-dash
- Calibre also smartens this better.
- Exception lists
- Diap's plugin lets you manually add words where it won't put a LEFT QUOTE.
- ’em + ’til + ’tis
- Toxaris's "Check Dialogue" in his EPUB Tools
- Points out all the mismatching opening/closing quotation marks.
- Greatest thing since sliced bread.
- Long monologues in Fiction have multiple successive paragraphs with an opening quote and NO closing quote. Toxaris has an option for that, so you don't waste time on false detections.
At the very bottom of my 2016 post, I also gave 2 Regexes I use to catch the shortened years + common ones like the "exception list" above:
"Proof reading help please - General, How to"
So that's mostly how I've been handling this the past many years:
- Run a smartening tool
- Regex a few edge cases
- Use Toxaris's Check Dialogue to catch any strays