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Em Dashes Break “Smart Quotation” Algorithms
Observation Quotation replacement algorithms routinely swap unidirectional quotation marks with directional quotation marks. (Examples below show unidirectional vs directional quotation marks in Verdana and Georgia typefaces.) The majority of these algorithms do not, however, properly handle adjacent em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens, resulting in substitution of directional quotation marks that point in the wrong direction. Documentation […]