[thelist] Strange symbols...

FWIW Macs have had real, curly quotes for a long
time (as you'd expect for the primary OS used for
typesetting). However, it's not substituted all over the
shop automatically except possibly in Office98 -
you need a simple keyboard shortcut.

Martin Burns
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel J. Cody [SMTP:dcody@oracular.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 20, 2000 9:32 PM
> To:	thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject:	Re: [thelist] Strange symbols...
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> Its not a Mac thing.. The pages use 'Smart Quotes' which are another
> wonderful innovation from our friends at Microsoft. Basically, smart
> quotes have nice little curls and look very attrative, but only windows
> machines only. I get the same thing on my linux box0rz all the time..
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> Basically, some one wrote the page with a windows specific tool, and the
> smart quotes got incorporated into it.
> 
> .djc.
> 
> Oliver Lineham wrote:
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> > >Is this a mac thing?  A font thing?  A browser thing?  Can anyone
> > >suggest a fix?
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