On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 00:12:05 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message ,
Jason writes:
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) "harry newton"
wrote in article
Since almost every technical web site uses the dastardly curly quotes, how
can I just get *rid* of them using a Windows method so that I can have a
text file that contains normal quotes?

Curly quotes (dastardly) are "normal" quotes. The straight quotes were
ASCII (and EBCDIC) excuses for "real" (dastardly, curly) quotes...

They (the straight quotes) preceded ASCII and probably EBCDIC by quite
some time - they're on my old Imperial typewriter ...


Yes, that's because they use only a single key. Curly quotes (the
normal quotes, as Jason said) would require two keys.