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Just a technique, but when posting an article, it helps to replace the cut & paste quotation marks with typed in from keyboard quotation marks. Then the reader won’t see garbage characters instead of the quotation mark. Makes for easier reading.

And yes, NBC is shameless.

6 posted on 12/29/2015 9:07:39 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)

Just a technique, but when posting an article, it helps to replace the cut & paste quotation marks with typed in from keyboard quotation marks. Then the reader wonâ€™t see garbage characters instead of the quotation mark. Makes for easier reading.

I was fiddling with Powershell V5 yesterday (if you've got Windows 10 it's already installed) and find that if you run this Powershell command in between your copy and paste operations, it will replace all the "smart quotes" on whatever is currently in your clipboard with standard (ASCII) quotes.

(Get-Clipboard) -replace '[\u2019\u2018]',"'" -replace '[\u201C\u201D]','"' | Set-Clipboard

16 posted on 12/29/2015 9:16:12 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

To: Mr Rogers; Hojczyk; tacticalogic

In one easy step, get all the “ and ‘s.

Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

22 posted on 12/29/2015 9:23:32 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)

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