Turning off Smart quotes?

Does anyone know how to turn off smart quotes in RHX5? I've
posted other questions related to the issue I'm having currently
with double quotes and the copyright sign showing up as ? in the
help files once they been included in a build. No one in my company
seems to know the right solution, so now I'm seeing if I can just
turn off the smart quotes.

Hi Paul,
I think Peter's method is indeed the way to go. For future
reference you can tidy up the word source via the instructions on
this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/206165
Cheers
Craig

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slps01 wrote:
red_menace:
That's my problem: no matter how I set the preferences in the applications, the smart quotes won't go away.
There is clearly an issue with smart quotes in your configuration. The global smart quotes setting is not being honored, nor is any local setting that might exist.
Which particular application are you using to edit your Python code when this problem arises?
(As with programming in general, details matter here.)
Did the tools you are using also get restarted after the global settings were changed?
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But if it's Word or TextEdit you're using? That won't work at all well.   TextWrangler (free) is a common choice for folks that prefer a GUI editor, or MacVim (free) or whatever emacs is current (also free) or other such if you'd prefer a more advanced editor. (Note: vim and emacs are much more cryptic, and much more powerful editors.) Or use the included nano editor (has an on-screen list of commands), or the integrated vim or emacs editors at the command line.   There are also Python IDE packages around, as well. (Xcode doesn't support Python, though there are reports of some success with it.) These tools all work, and these tools all produce the sorts of sequential text files that the compilers and interpreters can process.   In some cases, these tools also provide syntax highlighting and other features, which can be very useful when coding, too.

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