Re: [tlug] Stymied by emacs character display

[Stephen Lasseter <stephen@karasu.ninja>]

On 2/20/19 9:49 AM, Raymond Wan wrote:

> I've seen at least two versions of the apostrophe in
> Microsoft Word.  The first is the one we all know -- looks
> like a small vertical line; the second is the one that you
> saw which Microsoft Word "auto-corrects" to make -- looks
> more like a small "9" and what we would put if we were
> hand-writing an apostrophe.
>
> I see this almost every time I copy and paste source code
> from Microsoft Word.  Compilers and interpreters don't
> accept it, but one needs to look really closely to see the
> difference...
>
> Anyway, good to hear that you solved your problem!
>
> Ray
Are you talking about "smart quotes"?  I hate them with a passion.  MS 
Office has them turned on by default and there are at least two places 
you have to go in the configs to turn them off. Smart quotes are slanted 
inward from both the opening and closing quote.  I guess it is supposed 
to look nice.  But when Outlook automatically changes the straight 
quotes to smart quotes when you paste some code into an email, and the 
recipient copies that code block and wonders why they can't get it to 
work...  grrrr!  For the systems I have to use MS products on, not only 
do I turn them off, but I have set up an AutoHotKey script to detect and 
replace any smart quotes with straight (smarter) quotes from my 
clipboard contents in case my MS configs get reverted.

Stephen