Actually MS products keep confusing me by auto correcting "bla" to „bla“ ...

In the MS Office packages I know, there is a way to switch off this annoying (but yet typographically correct) behaviour. Google knows where to find instructions, you just have to remember that those stupid quotes are calles "smart quotes" in MS jargon. And when I'm in that scary area, I also switch off almost all other auto-"corrections" that mess with the way I enter text into my computer.

Oh, and by the way: I do the same with OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

Alexander

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In reply to [OT] Re^9: Perl and MongoDB (quoting style) by afoken
in thread Perl and MongoDB by Theodore

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