Thread: Preventing "orphan" right smartquotes?
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Old 11-05-2009, 01:50 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
I wouldn't have thought Stanza to have such a basic problem, but I've never used it. Do you know how the smartquotes are generated? E.g., if you extract the (X)HTML source from the ePub, are the quotes made with HTML commands like “ and ”, or directly with UNICODE (or other character encoding) characters, or ...?
frabjous, it looks like Unicode, not ”

<p>“blah blah blah blah something?”</p> shows up as

“blah blah blah blah something?
”

I think its part of how Stanza is overriding all CSS, etc. with their custom margin/font size settings..they just leave stuff hanging at times.
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