From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T22:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart Quotes

Stephan K�mper <Stephan.Kaemper@schleswig-holstein.de> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> I think _why did, at least RedCloth handles qoutes nicely.

Not what I meant - I want to go through an 'extended ascii' document,
and replace every extended quote character with its ascii equivalent.

FWIW, pasting into vim and typing 'show ascii' gives Hex93 for the open "
and Hex94 for the close one - I was hoping someone had already written a
tr string to do the lot (there's an ellipsis, an en- and em-dash, and a
few other punctuation marks too).

martin