Thread: What's with all the straight quotes (inch marks)?
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Old 03-01-2010, 03:00 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
However http://en.allexperts.com/e/l/li/liga...ypography).htm
agrees with the definition in wikipedia.
Was that meant to be a response to me? I wasn't taking sides on the issue.

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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
... and some browsers don't display them right and they show up as little question marks instead of quotes. (I gather this is some kind of weird IE compatibility issue. Don't care; am much happier with straight quotes in browser-viewed text.)...
As much as it would make me happy to blame all the world's ills on IE, this is probably a result of the pages being served with the wrong character encoding. The fault is really on the end of whoever made the website, or their webserver, but you can override it in your browser's settings. I can't remember exactly where in the menus this is for IE. (In Firefox, go to View > Character Encoding...) Trying playing around with the choices: Western (ISO 8859-1) and Unicode (UTF-8) are good things to try.

I always prefer curly quotes. In fact, there are certain fonts I avoid, even ones I really like otherwise (Palatino, KP Fonts), because the supposedly curly quotes aren't curly enough and easy to distinguish. But perhaps this is because I spend more time reading print books (or scans thereof) than material online, and it's easy to get distracted by what you're not used to.
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