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Creating custom shortcuts with apostrophes
Authored by: Jon on Jun 10, '14 01:53:07PM

Just take a look in the Keyboard viewer to find out where it is located. (You activate it from System Preferences > Keyboard)
On my Swedish keyboard you make "curly apostrophes" wits shift-alt+ apostrophe". And you make "curly quotes" with alt-shift+2.
Typographically the curly versions is the right way to write quotes and apostrophes. In fact, the sign that we often use for quote (like I do here) is not a quote sign at all, but an inch-sign. Since real quotes and apostrophes is not part of all encodings an does not always work on the web, this "wrong" usage has been the common usage.



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