the curse of tooling replacing double quotation marks with left double quotation marks and right double quotation marks – via StackOverflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/21
Most developers I speak to have trapped into a case of copy/pasting some source code containing quotation marks from documentation or post immediately failing on curly quotes like left double quotation marks (“
) and right double quotation marks (”
) that should have been regular double quotation marks ("
).
I’ve tried to search for a way to automate the replacement process to “ASCII quotation marks”, but not found an on-line engine yet. The best I could find was this post: java – Replacing unicode punctuation with ASCII approximations – Stack Overflow.
Note it’s not only the auto-correct of office applications. For instance “blog engines” like WordPress do that too, unless you add a code or pre around them:
- code:
"blog engines"
- pre:
"blog engines"
Very irritating, but apparently nowadays beauty trumps accuracy.
–jeroen
via: xampp – Apache Prefixing Path to Virtual Hosts Path – Stack Overflow.
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