On Sep 19, 2017, at 12:39 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: >> Lots of ?s that should be 's > > Oh, $##!@$#!@. I spent a lot of time replacing smart quotes in lots of > peoples' judgements and missed those (that was like 75% of the editing > effort). thx.
I would love to help out. I have a fairly solid understanding of Unicode, and of RFC 2822 and friends. I suspect curly quotes (U+2018, U+2019, and friends), at least, are inevitable, and that any preference any of us may have for a seven-bit textual universe are probably futile. I’m very much against actually using Emoji and other astral-plane characters in Agora, but it should at least be possible. In my case, curly apostrophes and quotes are inserted for me automatically by nearly every text-editing affordance in my OS - macOS’ typographical heritage shows through strong. It’s only when I author posts in a programming editor (TextMate, as it happens) and copy-paste them into my mail that they come out with ASCII quotes (U+0027). I know you’ve spent considerable effort trying to make Unicode work in your CFJ system, and in fixing up encoding issues by hand after the fact. The chain of programs you use to manage the CFJ archives _should_ probably handle non-ASCII characters transparently, even if it presently doesn’t. Can I share the load? -o
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