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by dayvigo 430 days ago
Curly vs. straight quotes is mainly a mobile vs. desktop thing AFAIK. Not sure what Mac does by default, but Windows and Linux users almost exclusively use plain straight quotes everywhere.
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My impression is that iOS is the only major platform to even support automatically curlify quotation marks. Maybe some Android keyboards are more sensible about it, but none that I’ve used make it anything but manual.