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Are character entities for smart quotes supported? [more inside]
posted by modernserf on May 3, 2012 - 37 comments

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?
posted by Space Coyote on Aug 1, 2004 - 7 comments

It looks like the stupid "smartquotes" in this thread are breaking Metafilter's RSS feed (or at least Syndirella's ability to parse it).
posted by waxpancake on Feb 6, 2003 - 11 comments