Subject: Re: apostrophes and quotes in RTF format
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 16:06:09 CST
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Tony Reed wrote:
> From: Tony Reed <Tony@TRLJC.COM>
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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:21:59 -0600
> scott snare <werehawk@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> :I am having a similar problem with files saved as a txt
> :format all the apostrophes come up as ? after I re open the
> :file.
> :Scott
>
> This is "curly quotes" problem. AbiWord is not inserting the ASCII
> character for a plain text apostrophe, it's inserting a "high ASCII"
> character of some sort. I can't seem to find anywhere in AbiWord to
> control the character set display.
>
Turn off the "Enable Smart quotes" option in the preferences.
Martin
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