Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 19:04 on 17 Oct 2005
> Can you explain to me why you or anyone else would bother using a curly
> apostrophe?

Because stupid GUI software automatically turns the one into the other,
instead of treating it as a presentation issue. I mean, if the editor can
tell when to do the conversion on *input*, then the display device can
just as easily do it on *output*.

Same with smart-quotes, smart-ellipses, and so on. I'm surprised Windows
doesn't convert "file" into "file" just to be difficult.

There's stuff above here

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