Why Smart Quotes
Who Cares
Who Cares?
Among others, Douglas Adams despaired of word processors without smart quotes:
Douglas Adams’ Guide to the Macintosh
The benefits to a writer include:
- You won’t look ignorant to those who know better
- Your work will be more complete
- It will impress your friends
The benefits to developers and programmers include:
- Help to overcome the stigma of illiteracy
- Tell the world that at least you care …
- Code is much more workable without having to escape nested quotes
Note to developers: of course we’re talking about typographic quotes in English language text. All coding quotes still need to be the straight quotes, as specified by your coding language.