[ale] SO vs OO

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at sciatl.com
Mon Apr 5 13:50:47 EDT 2004


Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> My fiance uses OO and has font problems all the time when converting from
> MS word docs. The biggest problem seems to be that some fonts are missing
> directional quotation marks. When she imports a word document, instead of
> doing something sensible, like using non-directional quoatation marks, it
> puts in question marks. 

ISTR that this is a problem with Microsoft's "Smart Quotes", as opposed to a 
font issue per se.  However, all I have is hearsay, so grain-of-salt and all that.



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