From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T02:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart Quotes

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:26 +0000, Martin DeMello wrote:
> Trying to save myself a bit of tedium - has anyone already written code
> to replace smart quotes and other such extensions with their normal
> ascii equivalents?


In what character set?  While normal quotes fall in the ASCII set, smart
quotes don't, so the replacing them will depend on the character set.

For UTF-8, try gsub(/“(.*)”/, "\"\1\"") -- though that'll only get one
possible set of quotes. There's also the German-style low-high quotes,
like „this”, and the French like «this» -- I don't know what cases
you're trying to solve.

Ari