if most people never start to care, then maybe straight quotes will be the future. wouldn't be the first time they'd changed!
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That’s indeed possible. Typography and conventions change. Personally, I would see it as a loss.
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PS Enjoying this conversation! Thanks for sharing a different point of view.
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I blab about those things in part so that it’s possible for me to be exposed to those and be held accountable.
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thanks for caring so much about this stuff! most of my beef is with the bad UIs, which have turned people off smart quotes already
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I know a lot of technical people who have fears about using smart quotes even in text systems that already support Chinese!
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it's almost always because they've been bitten by ASCII text that someone else passed through MS Word, which then broke for them.
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(We very specifically suppress any typographical enhancements in code blocks at Medium. I’ve fought hard for that.)
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Code should be code. Text should be text. But I know those separate contexts are sometimes not so easy to establish.
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Sometimes we just need more stuff like http://windowsitpro.com/powershell/powershell-got-smart-about-smart-quotes …
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haha! "we designed PowerShell so that it recognizes code mangled by auto-format in Word" classic MS solution to an MS problem!
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