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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by karagenit on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:23AM (#39217643)
Yeah, I've been bitten by those quotes in the past too. I noticed recently that VSCode (probably other IDEs too) highlight these characters pretty clearly to help avoid these issues.
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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by jboy55 on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:17PM (#39218400)
I wonder how much infighting there was between orgs at Microsoft over this. with an Outlook/Word PM escalating... "Make the languages understand smart quotes!"
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