"Mayayana" on Sat, 7 Oct 2017 23:16:53 -0400
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:

I agree with you. There's no reason to use curly
quotes. Using the ASCII versions means not needing
to use UTF-8 encoding. If UTF-8 were really necessary
it would be different, but most of the world lives by
ANSI. And webpages in European languages work just
fine with ANSI. Microsoft is one of the worst for that
problem. They write pages intended for an English-speaking
audience, in English, then use just a handful of unnecessary
UTF-8 characters that break the ANSI continuity. It makes
no sense.

IMOSHO, it makes no sense, but then it is Microsoft. Which often
seem to have a lot of "I'm sure it makes sense - not to me, but to
someone" elements.

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