wine users - Oct 2013 - Many posts using acute accent for apostrophe

There are lots of posts using acute accent for apostrophe.

Here's some posts:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2009-February/048369.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2009-February/048377.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2009-March/049648.html

According to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, it says...
?Do not use grave and acute accents or backticks (`text?) as quotation
marks (or as apostrophes).?

Is this a joke?

Regardless, I'll say I think it is annoying when people use those
characters in monospace text (which is the typical case for mailing list
e-mails) when a normal straight ' or " will suffice. (This is probably
annoying in general to me, as why have 2 special character sets when you
can just have one? It is like those who still type 2 spaces after a full
stop on a computer.)

One thing is that I think some (bad) e-mail clients assume intentions and
'fix' the characters for the user and then mis-encode the non-rich
version
of the e-mail with those characters.


On 19 October 2013 03:37, Tae Wong <seotaewong40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are lots of posts using acute accent for apostrophe.
>
> Here's some posts:
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2009-February/048369.html
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2009-February/048377.html
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2009-March/049648.html
>
> According to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, it says...
> ?Do not use grave and acute accents or backticks (`text?) as quotation
> marks (or as apostrophes).?
>
>
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You have been using Wine in a virtual machine.

Many users try to use a grave accent or acute accent instead of an
apostrophe with problematic keyboard driver semantics (`xxx?).

You'll need to get the MASH program (by BellCraft Techologies) fix the
bug with negative values running in East-Asian versions of Windows.

Please get your Mozilla Bugzilla account (seotaewong40) enabled.

-- 
Tae Wong