You can disable smart quotes on Mac.
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Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
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> 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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