Different quotes?
Posted: 2007-10-02 08:25:48
I'm not sure how I've done it, but I seem to have two different types of smart quotes in a document. Actually, this has been happening for a long time, but I've only just decided it's bothering me enough to complain about it.
I notice it when I do a global find and replace. I use "double" quotes, but most journals use 'single' quotes. I always use smart quotes, at least I think I do... Yep, turned on in all the languages I use.
Now, when I do this global change, I often find that not all the quotes have changed. I've just checked this out, since it's just happened, and I see that while most of my quotes are U+201D, some are U+0022. And I expect the same for the closing quote, and now that I think about it I wonder if I haven't also had a similar problem for single quotes.
Why, please? I do nothing different, all my smart quotes are created by pushing shift-'. Why am I getting two different unicode characters?
I notice it when I do a global find and replace. I use "double" quotes, but most journals use 'single' quotes. I always use smart quotes, at least I think I do... Yep, turned on in all the languages I use.
Now, when I do this global change, I often find that not all the quotes have changed. I've just checked this out, since it's just happened, and I see that while most of my quotes are U+201D, some are U+0022. And I expect the same for the closing quote, and now that I think about it I wonder if I haven't also had a similar problem for single quotes.
Why, please? I do nothing different, all my smart quotes are created by pushing shift-'. Why am I getting two different unicode characters?