Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet
Date	2016-03-28 19:11 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-03-28, Doc O'Leary <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> wrote:
> For your reference, records indicate that 
> dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> If we had to have longer passwords then that would be a burden in
>> itself,
>
> Clearly you didn’t read the XKCD comic.  Because of our innate language
> abilities, longer passwords (using actual words) are *less* of a burden
> than changing case (or using other substitutions) in non-standard ways.

Yep. For the past decade, my most secure passwords are full sentences
with spaces and punctuation that only I and my wife know.

>> I don't see the same for fancy dancy quotation marks in normal
>> English writing. 
>
> Then you must not read many things that aren’t entirely presented using
> computers that are limited by 1980s technology.  I can’t go to my
> bookshelf and pull off anything that *doesn’t* use curly quotes.  That
> includes the programming books.  For example, my copy of “The C
> Programming Language” uses them as early as the second paragraph of the
> preface!

Indeed, and as pervasive as they are, it seems strange and slightly
humorous to me that someone would have a problem with them at all.

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JR

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