The guy who wrote the code for our CMS added a nice feature:
“You’re trying to paste text from MS Word. This is not allowed.”
Dunno how he did it, but text from winword can’t be pasted.
So how difficult would it to be to auto-replace the troublesome characters? Dreamweater has a command ‘Clean up Word HTML’ for example.
Most likely he rigged up a trigger to check for non-ASCII characters. Some of Word’s characters do not exist outside of Word.
With my skill level, if I remember to put any mark up or down there, is doing good…
lol, this thread is full of Windows noobs.
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Go into auto-correct. Turn off the feature to automatically change apostrophes to single curly quotes. Problem solved.
When I type alt+146 I get Æ . (I see a capital AE ligature. Anyone see anything different? I’m on an XP platform.) How will Greco-Roman historians survive without Æ?
Perhaps the real question is, where does Microsoft get the idea it can create it’s own ASCII code?
You need to type alt+0146 - the zero is important.
- Apostrophe Theory
I’m in Firefox, and for some reason, whenever I type these things with the alt key, it keeps refreshing the page. It hasn’t done this before. Can anyone help me out?
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Try putting numlock on. I often use alt codes for papers and things and if numlock is off then all sorts of funky things can happen like going back a page in a browser and whatnot. I dunno why but numlock solves the problem.
That was it, thanks! I could have sworn I turned Numlock on, but I guess I hadn’t.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
And some people try to contribute useful information while others are just too fond of pointing out typos.
´ and are diacritical marks. In olden days, you would combine these with other characters to create vowels such as à or é. Computer programmers decided to assign some functionality to so now the rest of us are stuck with it taking up valuable keyboard space.
’ and " signify feet and inches or minutes and seconds. In everyday usage, they are perfectly adequate as apostrophes and quotation marks. They are sometimes referred to as typewriter apostrophe and typewriter quotes, respectively.
‘ and ’ are opening and closing single quotation marks. In the most common U.S. style, they are used to enclose a quotation within a quotation. (“He said, ‘I never want to see you again,’” she sobbed.) The closing single quotation mark doubles as an apostrophe, which signifies missing characters (e.g., the o and the 19 in “I haven’t seen hair like that since the ’80s!”). It is sometimes called the typographer’s apostrophe, and many people simply think it looks better than the straight version.
This works pretty well, unless you’re working for someone who does care. About the only time this comes up in everyday use is in reference to years, so unless they occurred in direct quotes, I would change them all to four-digit forms - '80s became 1980s - and problem solved. No incorrect punctuation, and nothing to get screwed up when imported into another program. Of course if you’re working for someone else you might not have the autonomy to do that, but at some point it becomes their problem, doesn’t it?
I am sobbing with joy.
Thank you, thank you all.
My apostrophe problem may be fixed.
I will creep away and try the solutions proffered.
Nope.
And then the *nix fanboy came to shit all over it. :rolleyes:
You, sir, are what is wrong with the Linux community.
**dijjij, **(thanks for that, by the way ;)) I just have memorized Alt-0151 for — and Alt-0150 for –. And I guess I’ll add Alt-0146 for ’ to that, as well.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
ETA: I’ve also got the US-International keyboard enabled secondarily to type all those æéìøü’s.
There’s a Linux community? Yes, I suppose there is, come to think of it. The idea of a community formed around software is vaguely disturbing.
Yes, the idea that an open source, collaborative project would have some sort of group of people who interact is very disturbing indeed.
Really, now?
What MS bizarreness are you using? I haven’t tried Windows 7, but I’m fairly certain they don’t actually make it impossible to single-apostrophe throughout the whole OS.
Curly quotes is an aesthetic substitution in Microsoft Word. It’s correctable and, if it’s not, you can always just use Notepad.
I’m all for complaining about stupid technology, but this time it’s a non-issue.