You can disable smart quotes on Mac. ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 3:25 AM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > 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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