Smart quotes
This post has been updated (finally). See last paragraph.
Dave said, "This is a test of killing off those sickening ’smart quotes’ which I don’t need." Blogsome and Wordpress apparently default to converting all quotes to so called smart quotes. One problem is Verdana (and potentially other web fonts) doesn’t really have decent smart quotes, they look like a superscript version of \\ and //, which in turn makes it look like the page was generated by a backwater perl script. The only workaround I have found is to use &34; every time I need a double quote and &39; every time I need an apostrophe. I don’t have time for this horse hit. I looked at the Blogsome plugins page but there’s nothing activated that would cause this, also I looked at css but I couldn’t get it to work.UPDATE Nov 1, 2006: This is no longer an "issue" (entered normally) when using the WYSI-Wordpress plugin, which I am. There is also a WP Unformatted plugin available that addresses the smartquotes issue specifically.
