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However, most computer text-editing programs provide a "smart quotes" feature to automatically convert straight quotation marks into bidirectional punctuation, though sometimes imperfectly (see § Smart quotes). Generally, this smart quote feature is enabled by default, and it can be turned off in an "options" or "preferences" dialog. Some ...
Since most editors don't know how to type curly quotes, heavily-edited articles will have a mix of straight quotes, curly quotes, and the stray question mark. Carnildo 07:31, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) There is a detailed list of browser issues with Unicode wikis in German atde:Wikipedia:Umstellung auf Unicode#Getestete_Browser.
For the sake of accuracy and indexing, the titles of referenced sources should not be corrected for spelling, but minor typographic adjustments (like changing curly quotes to straight) may be made silently. Inline citations in the quoted text, to sources not used in the Wikipedia article, should be silently removed.
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Because if it is, what you're proposing would require me to replace all the quotes in an article to straight quotes any time I use straight quotes anywhere. Ravenswood 23:10, August 11, 2005 (UTC) I note that this example conveniently excludes the section of the page that displays the title of the article, which almost certain contains a ...
Why does the Manual of Style recommend straight (keyboard-style) instead of curly (typographic) quotation marks and apostrophes (i.e., the characters " and ', instead of “, ”, ‘, and ’)? Users may only know how to type in straight quotes (such as " and ' ) when searching for text within a page or when editing.
But quote-enclosed reference names may not include a less-than sign (<) or a double straight quote symbol ("), which may however be included by escaping as < and " respectively. The quote marks must be the standard, straight, double quotation marks ("); curly or other quotes will be parsed as part of the reference name.
But quote-enclosed reference names may not include a less-than sign (<) or a double straight quote symbol ("), which may however be included by escaping as < and " respectively. The quote marks must be the standard, straight, double quotation marks ("); curly or other quotes will be parsed as part of the reference name.