Re: Smart apostrophes support

From: Jean Bréfort <jean.brefort_at_normalesup.org>
Date: Fri Feb 27 2009 - 17:37:45 CET

Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 17:23 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :
> Hi all, and thanks for your great work in Abiword!
>
> I've followed this list for a while, and I know Smart quotes support is
> coming in 2.8. That's really an important feature to my eyes, and while
> it's a detail, I consider it as a blocker for me switching to Abiword.
>
> I'm wondering whether this code could be easily extended to transform
> straight apostrophes ' to better-looking single quotes ’ , as
> recommended in Unicode. These are:
> U+0027 APOSTROPHE
> U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

U+0027 is replaced by U+2018 or U+2019.

> If that's relatively easy to do, I'd like to have a look at it. But I'm
> not familiar with Abiword codebase, so I'd need some hints.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 27 17:39:25 2009

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