Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social

In particular, the fact that MS Word doesn't just DISPLAY smart quotes like anyone halfway sensible would do, but actually replaces the quote characters with new characters

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

Oh god. I started just turning off smart quotes /entirely/ in MS Word years ago, rather than deal with the nonsense.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

And it does this automatically, by default. So if I write without smart quotes, and someone marks up the doc in a computer that DOES use them, EVERY SINGLE QUOTE gets marked as a "change" in a way that's very hard to filter out

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