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[venta]

Morning, LJ. I've got stuck in that loop where I have buckets of posts I've been intending to make, and thus can't post about anything because I need to sort the backlog out first.

Accordingly, I'm declaring Amnesty On Everything, because I'd like to ask a question :)

I have a lot of Word documents, where I have pasted in text written in a text editor and then edited it in Word. The net effect is that I end up with a mixed bag of "straight" ASCII quote marks and apostrophes, and fancy Unicode left- or right-handed quote marks and apostrophes.

What is the best way of sorting this out?

I expect to continue writing ASCII text documents in my favourite text editor and pasting them into Word, so anything that prevents this situation from arising would also be useful.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Your favorite text editor may be able to automatically enter proper quote/apostrophe characters (my favorite editor can but I don’t know if it’s the same as your favorite editor).

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm too scared to tell you what my favourite is, in case it's not :-)

(Also, I regard the straight ones as proper ones!)

[lnr]

So do I!