RE: Straight quotes to Smart quotes

>-----Original Message-----
>From: meka v.krishna prasad [mailto:mvkprasad@xxxxxxxxx]
>
>I want to convert Straight quotes to Smart quotes in
>XSLT. But Iam facing a problem in editors. (i.e even
>though Iam typing curly quotes, it has been converted
>to straight quotes in the WSAD editor.) I know that in
>word, it will convert automatically like that and we
>can disable that option in tools.
>I was confused about these two entities hexa decimal
>values also. Is it possible to convert this using
>Xalan?.

If you look at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
The important character entities are the

QUOTATION MARK "

Start:   comma quotation mark, double turned “
End:    comma quotation mark, double ”

use character entity references as given above.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-references

Edward Middleton

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