Subject: Re: smart quotes [ was Re: On the Road to version 1.0
From: Bryce Nesbitt (bryce@obviously.com)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 09:57:32 CST
Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > Pushed to 1.2 already by me. Smart quotes are disabled by default now,
> > and they really do work on linux but are buggy with regard to undo
> > operations (1822) and spell-checking.
Disabling smart quotes on Linux is one good step. However, there is
a related issue:
If a person creates a document in Abi for Windows they get `smart
quotes' in the file that display incorrectly on Abi for Linux.
How can that be polished for 1.0, so that all Abi documents display fully
on all platforms?
> The smart quote problems should be much easier to resolve once
> the bidi code is on board; most of it is related to the fact that we do
> hard character replacement in the piece table. In the bidi-enabled
> code we could just do a context sensitive glyph replacement in the
> visual plane, leaving the ordinary ' in the piece table. So I would
> agree we just leave it alone for the moment.
>
> Tomas
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