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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Started conversation Jul 24, 2005
As Clive says, M$ Word does some funny things to punctuation. The most common problem you see on h2g2 is caused by the autocorrection of ‘ and “ to curly quotes — also known as smart quotes. When people copy and paste text containing quotes, it looks initially as if everything is normal but, once you've pressed ‘Post Message’ the quotes get replaced with code numbers.
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