on 8/5/01 3:35 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Whatever it may look like in the font you use for plain-text, those are
> straight quotes, not curly quotes. To verify, type "thats" and let the
> auto-correct insert an apostrophe: that's. Then separate it out: that ' s.
> Then type a regular apostrophe next to it on one side and option-shift-]
> (which makes a curly one: � ) on the other side: that ''� s . If you look
> closely (or set your plain text size huge, or mail it to a mailing list that
> may mangle it, hence my cc to you here), you'll see the difference.
I don't think that's correct, Paul -- by that I mean it's not the display
font. When I do the "dont" trick so that Entourage auto-corrects, Entourage
inserts a curly apostrophe. When I delete that curly apostrophe and manually
enter an apostrophe, it is a "dumb" or "straight" one. Same font, different
character (I even verified this by cutting and pasting the two into a text
editor that identifies ASCII characters).
In fact, here are the two apostrophes (hopefully no servers or routers
between me and the list alters them):
� - the one Entourage used when it auto-corrected
' - the standard one that shows up when I manually type i
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