For my blogs, etc. I just process everything via Textile/SmartyPants/similar. For other writing, I don't bother to insert proper quote marks, but usually use a

For my blogs, etc. I just process everything via Textile/SmartyPants/similar. For other writing, I don't bother to insert proper quote marks, but usually use a proper dash. BTW, Mac OS X since 10.6 can automatically replace quotes in any Cocoa textview, but I have it turned off. The problem with "smart typography" is that is must be language-aware: quotes used in «Russian» are different from “English” and „German“ and »other« »styles»: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_marks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_...