MetaTalk posts tagged with smartquotes

Smart Quotes too smart for MetaFilter?

modernserf — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:57:58 -0800

Are character entities for smart quotes supported? I write my posts with Markdown and convert them into HTML for posting. However, whenever I write

"That's an interesting question," said Lord Dingus.

and convert it from Markdown to HTML, the preview window shows it as

Thats an interesting question, said Lord Dingus.

Yet if I paste formatted text with smart quotes there's no problem, as in

“That’s an interesting question,” said Lord Dingus.

Oddly enough, the entities seem to work fine on preview in MetaTalk. It seems that the parser edits out character entities, including those used by Markdown. (I think the mods mentioned this was for security reasons.) Is there any way these particular ones can be whitelisted? Alternately, is there a way if to disable smart quotes in TextMate or Notational Welocity?

cleanup requested on smart quotes

anotherpanacea — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:37:16 -0800

The PIRG post might be fantastic, or it might be crap. It might be the best post of the month, or just pure drivel. I can't tell. Any chance an admin could go in and clean up the smart quotes issue?

Are em-dashes bad?

Space Coyote — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:34:47 -0800

Are em-dashes bad? In my post from yesterday I used an — and some “ and ”s (double quotes). But looking at it just now I see they've been changed to plain old - and ". Was this done by hand or automatically? Are there still systems / browsers that mangle these charaters?

stupid "smartquotes" in this thread are breaking Metafilter's RSS feed

waxpancake — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:46:28 -0800

It looks like the stupid "smartquotes" in this thread are breaking Metafilter's RSS feed (or at least Syndirella's ability to parse it).