From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T22:43:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart Quotes

Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Can we please stop writing "smart quotes" when we in fact mean "matching
> quotes" or "opening and closing quotes"?  IMHO smart quotes do not denote
> certain characters but a feature of software, namely that the software
> inserts matching opening and closing quotes of the user's language
> convention whenever the user enters double / single quotes.
> 
> From this it's immediately clear that there is no single pair of "smart
> quotes" but a whole bunch of different character pairs that are inserted
> whenever certain pieces of software think they should replace other quotes
> entered by the user.

Hm - I'm referring specifically to the characters that MSWord inserts,
then (since I keep getting them in my email, and have to convert them to
pure ascii). I blame Outlook's use of Word(!) as a mail editor.

martin