Thread: "backward" smart quotes problem
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Old 02-07-2011, 11:18 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by WillAdams View Post
Unfortunately, automated attempts at this will fail if typed quotes have been used to indicate inches: 5' 2" &c.

Such special characters have to have special treatment and should be marked as such (and of course for foot and inches one should use prime and double primes respectively).

TEI has special tags to indicate begin / end quotes which allow for programmatic handling of them. Highly recommended.

William
Perkins REGEX solution does not allow numbers to be included.
space followed by quote followed by a word
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