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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug: Exporting smart single quotes in Org 8.3 seems broken
 [8.3.2 (8.3.2-elpa @ /Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20150929/)]
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:40:31 +0200
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Hello,

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> It feels wrong as these are not English words, or phrases, but strings
> with context dependent special meaning.  In my case, these are action
> keys in my organisation denoting specific processes.
>
> I also found this English.SX answer:
>
>   http://english.stackexchange.com/a/3471
>
> It mentions:
>
>   [...] referring to the concept behind the word [...],
>
> as one of the use cases for single quotes.

There are two things to consider.

1. Double quotes in the Org document are not necessarily exported as
   double quotes in the output. It depends on the language used and
   `org-export-smart-quotes-alist'.

2. You can always force any type of quotes with entities.


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou