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I'm seeing the same thing with this post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096843

• bshimmin 12y ago
  It's the smart quotes.
  • eric_h 12y ago
    Ha. It's always the smart quotes. They've caused me so many headaches over the years it's amazing to me that they are still actively supported and implemented in any software. What value do they even bring? #DeathToSmartQuotes
    • Alupis 12y ago
      Smart quotes tend to cause a lot of problems... especially since they don't just convert to a standard quote in Unicode, etc... [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_and_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Curved_quotes_an...
      • krapp 12y ago
        User content posted from a word processor directly into a textarea field = much suffering.
    • dang 12y ago
      > It's always the smart quotes. #DeathToSmartQuotes This is pure kogir bait (he is your passionate co-positionist), but as far as we can tell, it wasn't the smart quotes.