Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet

From	android <here@there.was>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet
Date	2016-03-24 08:40 +0100
Organization	the center
Message-ID	<here-7FDC1C.08405224032016@news.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(3 earlier) <2016032115300184414-xxx@yyyzzz> <here-377968.07073622032016@news.individual.net> <slrnnf3037.kcg.g.kreme@amelia.local> <here-0C499F.07452224032016@news.individual.net> <slrnnf744j.b0g.michael.kallweitt@news.wasfuereintheater.com>

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<slrnnf744j.b0g.michael.kallweitt@news.wasfuereintheater.com>,
 Michael Kallweitt <michael.kallweitt@posteo.de> wrote:

> android <here@there.was> wrote:
> 
> > Thats harsh remark against the smarts. Smart quotes ain't carry a real 
> > significance but only meeses up texts. There is no place in language for 
> > them since the carry no differential meaning to the context. :-p
> 
> There *is* a typographic difference between opening and closing quotes
> that are used everywhere outside the 7bit world.

That's for print. Typographers use them setting text. Those are not on 
the keyboards of typewriters or computers and should not be imposed on 
the text adlib by some text editor software. They do not ad anything to 
the text and are not the intention nor under control of the writer.
-- 
teleportation kills

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  Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-12 18:30 +0000
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