Apparently my reply, to a thread stemming from a changed subject, didn't get
read by people reading this thread.
The problem lies in what is specified in Autocorrect for the replacement for
"dont". On my Mac, the replacement text contains the curly quote. To fix the
problem, edit the Autocorrect items to use straight quote.
On or near 8/8/01 10:00 AM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Well, it appears that there is a need to be able to do comparisons of
> configurations. New script anyone? ;-)
>
> One suggestion to check, though. What is the default character encoding you
> are using? Checking with don�t, I get a curly quote. My Entourage is
> registered as a Japanese application, the default view is UTF-8, and
> composing is set to plain text.
>
> on 01.8.7 6:08 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On 8/7/01 5:02 PM, "George Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/7/01 19:25, Michael J. Kobb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah. Further perusal shows that others found this already. Still a mystery
>>>> why it's using a curly quote, but I get the same behavior with other
>>>> auto-corrections, like "thats" "wasnt", etc.
>>>>
>>>>> I figured it out folks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Type this: dont'
>>>>>
>>>>> The spelling software corrects the typo in "dont" by inserting the curly
>>>>> apostrophe, but your trailing apostrophe gets left there.
>>>
>>> Not for me; I still get a straight single quote (apostrophe) even if I type
>>> "dont'". To wit: don't'
>>>
>>>
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