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Old 08-31-2007, 02:21 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It is worth remembering that "curly quotes" are not a part of the standard ASCII character set, and hence their display is code page dependent (unless one is dealing with Unicode, of course). They will display correctly on the "Latin 1" code page that most English speaking, and Western European, countries use, but not elsewhere.

It's best to stick with straight ASCII quotes if you want everyone to be able to display your book correctly.
I was talking about converting to html where the entities "“", "”" etc are supported in html as well as by mobipocket reader and in the ipdf standards. I think you can have both universality and retain the benefits of proper typography (except of course proportional spacing).

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