Quotation mark problem!

Hello everyone! I have a unusual problem to address. I have recently gotten into HTML coding, and I am using a navigation menu and it requires quotation marks. As seen in the picture on the top, TextEdit keeps inverting them, thus ruining my code! I need the quotation marks to be like the ones at the bottom of the photo for the code to compile correctly.

I found a solution! Turn off "smart quotes," in the keyboard settings!

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Here are the ASCII char being used.
145 221 91 10010001 ‘  ‘ Left single quotation mark
146 222 92 10010010 ’  ’ Right single quotation mark
147 223 93 10010011 “  “ Left double quotation mark
148 224 94 10010100 ”  ” Right double quotation mark
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some updates where put in the system, I don't know details.
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Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?
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Problem with quotation marks in Reports

Hello,
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Since upgrading to an Intel MacBook Pro (10.4.7), my outbound email has been turning into a weird jumble of glyphs.
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The only reason I even know about this is
because I’m able to see the catastrophe in my
original text included in their responses.
That doesn't necessarily mean that your outbound mail is appearing strange to the reader. I would advise you to check that and verify that you really have a problem.
If your readers do see strange characters, it is often because you are sending rich text (which is really html mail) and they are using MS Outlook. Some possible fixes are in this note:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html
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Windows has a toggle function for input keyboards. I can't recall what key combo it was, since I turn it OFF asap on every single installation I work with :-) but it is something with Shift+Alt.
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How can i get the correct text from a string like it show in the original source with the quotation marks in the right place ?

The text is in hebrew so the problem is that sometimes the quotation marks not in the right place.
For example i have this text: תווית
על בגד: ''תן לאישה לכבס. זה תפקידה''
This is the source original text you can see the quotations marks and they are not in the right place and all i did is copy paste.
And this is a screenshot of how this text looks like in the website in the original:
You can see now where the quotations marks should be.
Now this is how i'm using the text in my program:
First of all i'm using a webclient to download the page from the website and i'm also encoding it to windows-1255 since it's in hebrew.
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page = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1255").GetString(myDataBuffer);
Then i'm extracting the places i need by reading the html file lines and parsing the right text and it's link.
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string text = "";
string mys = "";
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lockedLinks = new List<string>();
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for (int i = 0; i < fall.Length; i++)
if (fall[i].Contains("http://rotter.net") && fall[i].Contains("locked")||
fall[i].Contains("locked_icon_general") ||
fall[i].Contains("locked_icon_anchor") ||
fall[i].Contains("icon_anchor") ||
fall[i].Contains("locked_icon_fire") ||
fall[i].Contains("locked_icon_sport") ||
fall[i].Contains("locked_icon_camera") ||
fall[i].Contains("locked_icon_movie"))
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foreach (Match m in linkParser.Matches(fall[i + 2]))
if (m.Value.Contains("><b"))
loc = m.Value.Replace("\"><b", string.Empty);
lockedLinks.Add(loc);
string txt = fall[i - 1];
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Already here on the List lockedThreads you can see the quotation marks not in the right place as in the original:
After i'm parsing the text and links and adding them to the Lists in another class i'm doing a comparison using this Lists:
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if (ListsExtractions.lockedThreads.Contains(l_node.Text))
l_node.ImageIndex = 0;
l_node.SelectedImageIndex = 0;
for (int l_count = 0; l_count < l_branch.Count - 1; l_count++)
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l_subnode.ImageIndex = 0;
l_subnode.SelectedImageIndex = 0;
The problem is in the line:
if (ListsExtractions.lockedThreads.Contains(l_node.Text))
When it's getting to the line with the quotation marks it's never equal.
Now there are more quotation marks.
In general the problem when comparing both text if it's having quotation marks it's not the same.
So i have two options:
1. To fix it somehow so the quotation marks will be the same in both variables when comparing and also the same like in the original as they show in the html page.
2. To remove the quotation marks from both variables.
What should i do ? And how ? I was prefer to use the original quotation marks like in the original since they have a meaning in the place they should be. The question is how can i do it ?
This is example of the block from the html file where the text with the quotation marks is:
<TD ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP"> 9418 </TD></TR><TR BGCOLOR="#eeeeee">
<TD ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP">
<body onmousemove="overhere()">
<a onmouseover="EnterContent('ToolTip','תווית על בגד: ’’תן לאישה לכבס. זה תפקידה’’','כתב: Spook בתאריך: 08.03.15 שעה: 22:11 מחאת טוויטר קמה בעקבות תוויות שוביניסטיות שהדפיסה חברת אופנה באינדונזיה לפיהן תפקיד הכביסה מוטל על האישה. החברה התנצלה אך כנראה רק עשתה רק יותר נזק לע...'); Activate();" onmouseout="deActivate()" href="javascript:void(0)">
<img src="http://rotter.net/forum/Images/new_locked_icon_general.gif" border="0"></a></TD><TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="55%">

<a href="http://rotter.net/cgi-bin/forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=189696&forum=scoops1">
תווית על בגד: ''תן לאישה לכבס. זה תפקידה''
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Ok, it is unclear on what is happening here.
Are you saying that when the webclient gets the data that it is not honoring the quote characters? Or the processing of the data buffer is causing issues?
This is what I see the of your example text which is trying to be parse out:
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William Wegerson (www.OmegaCoder.Com)

Quotation Marks display as boxes

I need to figure out why in some instance quotation marks
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removed the css style sheet for a moment but the quotation marks
still show as box. Since I have the same code to pull the data,
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Are the quotes 'straight' quotes, or 'curly' quotes? Although
both straight
and curly quotes are special characters (" and
“ respectively) a
' " ' (i.e. straight quote) will usually appear as a straight
quote when put
directly in the code, but I have never had curly quotes
appear correctly. I
guess this is because quotes are used within attributes and
so on in regular
HTML.
If this isn't your problem then someone else will answer
better than I
have...
Regards,
Bruce
"weblinkstudio" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gnv4mg$82f$[email protected]..
>I need to figure out why in some instance quotation marks
display as boxes.
> This may also be a ColdFusion question but I'll start
here:
>
> I have a site that displays articles from a coldfusion
database. The
> articles
> display fine. There is no css or font tag applied to the
text (so
> basically
> displaying default fonts).
>
> Now, I gave the page a new name and surrounded the code
with formatting
> css.
> All quotation marks display as square box. I thought it
may depend on the
> font
> that I chose (Ariel). So I removed the css style sheet
for a moment but
> the
> quotation marks still show as box. Since I have the same
code to pull the
> data,
> same browser, same computer, this is puzzling.
> Any idea what is causing this?
> Thanks.
>

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From Page 354 of the the Book "Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer's Guide" written by Michael Coles (published by apress), I copied the following code (Listing 12-9 Retrieving Job Candidates with the query Method):
--Coles12_9.sql // saved in C:/Documemnts/SQL Server Management Studio
-- Coles Listing 12-9 Retrieving Job Candidates with the query Method
-- Doing XQuery and the xml Data Type in AdvantureWorks
-- 17 March 2015 1105 AM
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT Resume.query
N'//*:Name.First,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
I executed this set of Listing 12-9 code in my SQL Server 2012 Management Studio and I got the following error messages:
Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Unclosed quotation mark after the character string '//*:Name.First,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Incorrect syntax near '//*:Name.First,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
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Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang

Hi Scott,
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