Comments on: Think Tank: WordPress Coding Challenge – Win Prizes! http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/04/10/think-tank/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joel http://asitecalledfred.com/2008/04/10/think-tank/comment-page-1/#comment-3871 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:06:33 +0000 http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/04/10/think-tank/#comment-3871 What you want is to explicitly set the character set on the page to UTF-8. Then, set up the script to change typographic (curly) quotes: not to straight quotes, but to their complement. E.g., if the user enters a “quote”, display it as ”quote“. That’s clever, demonstrates that you’re making a typographical statement rather than being technologically challenged, and will cause the intelligent donkeys who use curly quotes on a web form to look ‘stoopid’.

Just one question—what do you want to do with the “fancy” dashes and ellipses?

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