Avdi Grimm <gro...@inbox.avdi.org> writes: > One issue: my beta reviewers have noted that when copy-and-pasting > source code listings that contain single-quoted strings, they are > getting "smart quotes"--i.e. the first quote is a backquote, the > second quote is a single quote. This breaks the pasted code.
Those aren't even “smart quotes” (the term usually applied to the quote characters from Microsoft's standards-violating character set). Those are what might be called “TeX quotes” (though the convention pre-dates even TeX), since TeX uses ‘`’ for an opening single quote and ‘``’ for an opening double quote. Nowadays with Unicode available ubiquitously we can simply use the correct typographical quotation marks directly in the plain text file, but TeX and some other legacy systems don't work very well with Unicode. -- \ “Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the | `\ strict truth.” —Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_ | _o__) | Ben Finney
