From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Dumbquotes in exported source listings Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 13:13:26 +1000 Message-ID: <871v0ji04p.fsf@benfinney.id.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGN6L-0002Se-3C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:13:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGN6K-0003s6-1D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:13:41 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGN6J-0003s2-S3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:13:39 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGN6H-0005gi-M9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 05:13:37 +0200 Received: from eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.214.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 05:13:37 +0200 Received: from ben+emacs by eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 05:13:37 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Avdi Grimm 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