Ok, curly quotes are now part of this weblog. Woohoo!
And I’m not writing any instructions, because these instructions by Matt are so easy to follow, it’d be a shame to try and steal them from him.
Get yourself some “curly quotes” today.
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Ah, curly quotes. Expect to see invalid XML in the RSS feeds from people who quote your posts, since they generally don’t get copied and pasted as entities.
thanks for the feedback phil. I’d think that if people were going to ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ by website directly, they’d do as I do when I’m copying and pasting anyone else’s website. which is:
1. ‘select’
2. ‘copy’
3. ‘paste into BBEdit’
4. ‘zap gremlins’ (a command in the edit menu I believe)
5. fix those gremlins.
If I’m copying something pretty complex, I usually just go to the HTML source, and copy directly from there, then fix what HTML markup I need to, and go from there… just works better.
I guess its too much to ask that people be better aquainted with HTML before they go copying my text…. maybe that’s what they get for copying my text ? They can always just link to the site, which is what I’d prefer honestly.
They can always email me a question like ‘john, my xml feed broke after I quoted your site’. I’ll help them fix the problem if I have the time.
I’m still torn on the curly quotes idea… but it doesn’t look nicer to me right now… and at least the beauty of doing it in a MT module is that it can easily be turned off.
I’ll think about it more… thanks for the feedback again.
Glad to hear you’re liking it!
> Ah, curly quotes. Expect to see invalid XML in the RSS feeds from people who quote your posts, since they generally don’t get copied and pasted as entities.
…Or the Trotts should make MT convert some common signs like curly quotes into numeric entities when they’re printed in XML files.
I know when I would quote someone’s post with its curly quotes, b2 would convert the quotes (and apostrophes, and ‘em dash’, and lots other stuff) back to numeric entities.
Here’s a demonstration of the array I compiled for this: http://tidakada.com/html2numeric.php