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by eric_h 4130 days ago
Ha. It's always the smart quotes.

They've caused me so many headaches over the years it's amazing to me that they are still actively supported and implemented in any software. What value do they even bring?

#DeathToSmartQuotes
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Alupis 4130 days ago
Smart quotes tend to cause a lot of problems... especially since they don't just convert to a standard quote in Unicode, etc... [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_an...

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krapp 4130 days ago
User content posted from a word processor directly into a textarea field = much suffering.
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dang 4130 days ago
> It's always the smart quotes. #DeathToSmartQuotes

This is pure kogir bait (he is your passionate co-positionist), but as far as we can tell, it wasn't the smart quotes.

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