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  • High-bit Latin-1 chars will be converted to the appropriate character reference, unless there is an appropriate ASCII version hardcoded in the code (like 'curly quotes' -> 'straight quotes' ... suck it up!).

    In Extrans and Code modes (and ECODE tags), which do not allow any character references, those character references will turn into literal text, like «, because why would you use that character in Code anyway? Silly.

    • Re:Note (Score:3, Informative)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      Bah; curly quotes were an abomination, anyway, from the moment the Macintosh first invented them. Or maybe from the moment the Wintel world first changed the high bit character code for them. (Or maybe I have my history wrong....)

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

      • Re:Note (Score:3, Informative)

        by Elian (119)
        Curly quotes are several hundred years older than the Macintosh...

        • Yeah, but typewriters got rid of that abomination long ago. Why people have to bring back the wild ways of the ancients is beyond me. ;)

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          J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
          • Talking about horrible quotes, I wish `these' ugly quotes [cam.ac.uk] would stop showing up.

            • Re:Note (Score:2)

              by jdavidb (1361) on 2003.07.30 8:17 (#22578) Homepage Journal

              OH, MY, YES!!! I hate that. I've even seen software that does that automatically.

              Whenever I see that I feel like the typist was just very insecure about only having straight quotes. It really takes away my respect for their writing.

              Also, `' may resemble quotes, but on many terminals I use, they are so big it almost looks like the author quoted like \this|.

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              J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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