What are Smart Quotes?

[Susan]

Please explain what are Smart Quotes? Someone has said the
MS Word uses Smart Quotes and I am having problems with
web page. I am sent a newsletter in MS Word, I generally
copy and paste, strip the formatting, and then format the
text. I am wondering if in this process, I am somehow
getting into trouble with Smart Quotes. I use FP2002.

Thanks for information.

Susan

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Susan,

See
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&na=88&View=en-us&qu=smart+quotes

 

[Ronx]

Ordinary quotes resemble (in some mad-hatter sort of way) bunnies ears. Two
straight, short vertical lines, and are the same at each end of quoted text.
These have an ASCII code of 34.

Smart Quotes are a different shape, depending on the font being used. In
Times New Roman they are similar to 66 (opening quote) and 99 (closing
quote). These have ASCII codes of 147 and 148 respectively.

Some browsers have problems displaying ASCII codes that are greater than
127, often converting the character to a ? mark. In HTML these codes should
be converted to entities which are understood by most browsers. For smart
quotes, the conversion is “ (opening) and ” (closing), so in HTML
view the code for some quoted text would be:
<p>He said “This is a quotation” and ...</p>
whereas with ordinary quotes:
<p>He said "This is a quotation" and ...</p>

The appearance on the page would depend on the font being used, Times New
Roman would show smart quotes similar to small 66 and 99, verdana displays
bunnies ears at an angle.

Probably the best way to process your newsletter, is to open a new page in
FrontPage, then drag the Word document onto it. This usually needs very
little further work.

Ron

 

[Susan]

Thanks Mike,
I directly edited my curly cue quotes to the ordinary
quotes. My quotes in the HTML were in text within
paragraphs, so I could not do find on ASCII(or I don't
know how!).

My question is if I copy and paste, I had the problem
because Word document had Smart Quotes. Won't I still
have the problem if I drag. I am not sure what you mean
by drag.

Thanks,

 

[Ronx]

Drag:
Left click on the file and, holding the mouse button down, drag the file
elsewhere.
For dragging Word files into FrontPage documents:

Do not import the document into FrontPage.
Set up the desktop so that you can see FrontPage and Windows Explorer at the
same time.
In FrontPage create a new page.. Do not edit anything.
In Windows Explorer, browse to the Word document.
Left click and hold the mouse button down, then drag the document into the
page. As you drag into the page the file icon being dragged will change from
a Word icon into a square a + sign.
Release the mouse button.
FrontPage will convert the document into a web page, and the smart quotes
will be changed to ordinary quotes.
Edit and format as required.

If you import the document into FrontPage, and then drag the imported
document into the page, all you get is a link to the document.

Ron

 

[Susan]

Thanks Ron! I will do that!

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Drag:
Left click on the file and, holding the mouse button down, drag the file
elsewhere.
For dragging Word files into FrontPage documents:

Do not import the document into FrontPage.
Set up the desktop so that you can see FrontPage and Windows Explorer at the
same time.
In FrontPage create a new page.. Do not edit anything.
In Windows Explorer, browse to the Word document.
Left click and hold the mouse button down, then drag the document into the
page. As you drag into the page the file icon being dragged will change from
a Word icon into a square a + sign.
Release the mouse button.
FrontPage will convert the document into a web page, and the smart quotes
will be changed to ordinary quotes.
Edit and format as required.

If you import the document into FrontPage, and then drag the imported
document into the page, all you get is a link to the document.

Ron
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