Re: Dumbquotes in exported source listings

[Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>]

Avdi Grimm <groups@inbox.avdi.org> 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.

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Ben Finney