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  • RangeBob
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2014
    • 121899

    #1

    Smart Quotes and Special Characters

    In one of my editors I've created a macro to replace smart double quotes and smart single quotes with their simple equivalents that GoC currently requires to avoid them being board 'translated' to the more difficult to read "?"s.

    I don't guarantee to use it all the time, and the macro doesn't currently handle any other special characters like "--", but it's easier than doing it manually so when posting articles I'll probably use it frequently.


    Curly/Smart Quotes and Curly/Smart Apostrophes
    Use ALT+0145 and ALT+0146 for the left and right single quotation marks or apostrophes, respectively.
    Use ALT+0147 and ALT+0148 for the left and right double quotation marks, respectively.
  • Camo tung
    Senior Member
    • May 2012
    • 24778

    #2
    You could have had AI do the work for you while you sat back and enjoyed some AI generated Page 3 girls, all with 6 fingers.
    "It is an absolute truism that law-abiding, armed citizens pose no threat to other law-abiding citizens."

    Ammo, camo and things that go "blammo".

    “That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” ― George Orwell

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    • RangeBob
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2014
      • 121899

      #3
      testing

      “hello”
      ‘there’
      The … space
      And – says
      “He has been released on bail three times,”


      Well, what do you know. Smart Quotes work in this subforum.

      Perhaps that was why the site was down Thursday afternoon -- to fix that.

      Old posts that were messed up, are still messed up. e.g. https://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/sho...-quot?p=692098

      But I see they don't work in the "News And World Headlings" subforum -- so I still have to use my replacement macro there.
      Last edited by RangeBob; 03-22-2024, 12:18 AM.

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      • Purdom234
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2019
        • 1242

        #4
        Lucky for me I don't know any smart quotes.

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        • SwissArmyMan
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2018
          • 7668

          #5
          This site is f'ed!
          "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men" -JFK

          "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain

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          • Swingerguy
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2016
            • 6511

            #6
            Originally posted by Camo tung View Post
            You could have had AI do the work for you while you sat back and enjoyed some AI generated Page 3 girls, all with 6 fingers.
            Ooohh!
            I love them there 6 fingered gurls!
            ?Just because you?re paranoid, doesn?t mean they?re not out to get you?!
            Neil Oliver

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            • Dewey Cox
              Señor Member
              • Jan 2013
              • 6058

              #7
              Is there any plans to fix the punctuation, or is this site just never going to be taken seriously again?
              Why does the rest of the country get first dibbs on half my income?

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              • Camo tung
                Senior Member
                • May 2012
                • 24778

                #8
                Originally posted by Dewey Cox View Post
                Is there any plans to fix the punctuation, or is this site just never going to be taken seriously again?
                I'm remembering how hard it was to get pic posting fixed.
                "It is an absolute truism that law-abiding, armed citizens pose no threat to other law-abiding citizens."

                Ammo, camo and things that go "blammo".

                “That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” ― George Orwell

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