Thread: Removing smart quotes
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Old 03-06-2008, 10:29 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You could simply do a search and replace. I am, however, a little puzzled as to why you would want to do this. Replacing quotes is reasonable--smart quotes don't display correctly in some codepages
There are different language conventions also. It would be nice if you tagged text instead so you can choose which quote to use in the reader. For example: <q>He said <q>fish</q>!</q>

Or is smart quotes something that display quotes correctly depending on language setting?
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