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in thread Perl and MongoDB

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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Re:[OT] Re^9: Perl and MongoDB (quoting style)
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 13, 2020 at 21:10 UTC

    Another fun one from Redmond is that OuthouseOutlook has the annoying tendency to "correct" -- to an — (mdash) for you. While more typographically pretty that doesn't really play nice with Getopt::Long or other such argument parsing when people naïve non-*NIX users (or even regular *NIX users) try and copy-and-paste the instructions you sent them straight into their shell.

    Edit: In their defense it can be disabled, but that only helps you once you've done that.
    Preferences > AutoCorrect > AutoFormat > "Dashes with n-dashes and m-dashes"

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