[Python-ideas] Smart/Curly Quote Marks and cPython

[Chris Barker]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> there are a lot of environments where smart quotes get
> accidentally inserted into code.
>


> * Tutorial/example material prepared by non-programmers, again using
> tools that are too "helpful" in auto-converting to smart quotes.
>

indeed -- I once id a whole set of python class slides in LaTeX -- really
nice format, etc....

but in teh process from LaTeX to PDF, I ended up with stuff that looked
like Code, but if you copy and pasted it the quotes were wrong -- but only
sometimes -- I got pretty used to fixing it, but still was symied once in a
while,a nd it was pretty painful for my students...

I think the "better error message" option is the way to go, however. At
least until we all have better Unicode support in all our tools....

-CHB

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