[thelist] Mac Users: Problems viewing RTF

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Tue Jun 26 09:02:35 CDT 2001


Sabrina Dent, Apperception wrote on 25/6/01 8:34 pm

>> >A user reports that "Come on, Jeannie, its for my birthday!" reads as:
>> > ìCome on, Jeannie, its for my birthday.î
>
>> Yup. Curly quotes alright.
>
>> Windows and MacOS handle them differently (and I'm not sure
>> RTF handles them at *all* as it's ASCII which doesn't support
>> curly quotes), so you'll get mistranslation between platforms.
>
>How do I get rid of them and make them straight quotes? <willing, but not
>able!>

Hm. 2 options:
1) Get sensible word docs from your users. Tricky...
2) Run a search/replace across all submitted files. This would
   mean that you'd have to be confident that you don't get any
   intended ì and î chars.

Cheers
Martin

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