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Old 05-18-2009, 12:53 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I gave up on "curly quotes" a long time ago, for that very reason. If the source has them, fine. If it doesn't, it's a virtually impossible task to programatically get them right; you certainly can't assume that they always occur in pairs!
I find that word does a pretty good job of handling curly quotes. It may not be perfect but does the right thing the majority of the time. You just turn on smart quotes and then replace " with " and the magic happens. Do it again with ' with '.

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