Cheryl Sabella <[email protected]> added the comment:
Would it be worthwhile to automatically convert the text when it's being pasted
or would there be a scenario where it would be desirable to keep these
characters in the text? It seems the point here is that the user wouldn't even
realize that the quotes (or dashes) being copied aren't the right ones and they
would have to learn to take the extra step of formatting the text. That seems
annoying, so maybe automatic conversion would eliminate that?
For the menu option route, in the editor there is an additional 'Format' menu
which has some text manipulation options, but the Shell doesn't have this menu
available. There isn't any formatting options on the 'Edit' menu currently.
Would it be better to add a 'Format' menu to the Shell or have this on the
'Edit' menu (which is already getting long)?
For the actual text conversion, I pasted some smart quotes on Windows and it
pasted as \u2018\u2018 (two single left quotations marks) and \u2019\u2019 (two
single right quotation marks) instead of \u201C (double left) and \u201D
(double right). \u0060 (grave accent) and \u00B4 (acute accent) also seem to be
possible values that are used for quotes, although converting them
automatically may be more problematic.
I think for starters the idea would be:
text.replace('\u2018\u2018', '"')
text.replace('\u2019\u2019', '"')
text.replace('\u2018, "'")
text.replace('\u2019, "'")
text.replace('\u201C, '"')
text.replace('\u201D, '"')
The dash may be more complicated since there are more of them. Unless the
category could be used.
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nosy: +cheryl.sabella
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