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Smart Quotes #123932 29/06/05 05:19 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 18 Melbourne, VIC, AU Zyxak OP Pikka bird
OP Zyxak Pikka bird Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 18 Melbourne, VIC, AU	The other night I found myself typing the apostrophe and quote keys and seeing smart quotes come out on the screen instead. After some experimentation I found I could toggle them on/off with Ctrl+Shift+' (apostrophe). I'm using mIRC 6.16 with no scripts on Windows XP Pro (SP2). This seems to be 100% reproducable here with various fonts - I only tried Verdana, Times, Arial, Trebuchet. Is this an undocumented feature of mIRC or is this a feature of Windows passed through to mIRC? =Z=

Re: Smart Quotes #123933 29/06/05 05:22 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA	I tested on Win2000 in 6.16 and cannot get "smart" quotes and the Ctrl-Shift-' doesn't do anything. It's probably an XP feature, but I can't test that until I get home tonight. Invision Support #Invision on irc.irchighway.net

Re: Smart Quotes #123934 29/06/05 05:51 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 18 Melbourne, VIC, AU Zyxak OP Pikka bird
OP Zyxak Pikka bird Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 18 Melbourne, VIC, AU	I started up a second iteration of mIRC and found that I can use the Ctrl+Shift+' key sequence to toggle smart quotes on/off independantly in either mIRC. It might be a Windows feature after all. I found these other Ctrl key sequences also work in the text entry windows of mIRC: Ctrl+' (apostrophe) Accent acute Ctrl+` (grave) Accent grave Ctrl+~ (tilde) Accent tilde Ctrl+; (semicolon) Accent umlaut Ctrl+Shift+6 Accent caret (circumflex) Ctrl+, (comma) Accent cedilla Ctrl+Shift+' (apostrophe) Activate smart quotes Incidentally, I found this list in the Help file for some other Windows app. =Z=

Re: Smart Quotes #123935 01/07/05 01:21 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327	They all do nothing here (XP Pro, no SP2) New username: hixxy

Re: Smart Quotes #123936 06/02/06 07:55 PM
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1 P putnam Mostly harmless
putnam Mostly harmless P Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1	In your mIRC options, go to IRC-->Messages and make sure "Process ANSI Codes" is checked. This seems to be the flag that needs to be up in order for smart quotes to work. The same combination doesn't work in Notepad or any other default "Editbox" in Windows applications, so I'm inclined to think it's built into mIRC but not documented. I found this thread on Google because I accidentaly enabled smart quotes and couldn't figure out how the hell to disable them. Please, for the love of God, add this to the help file. Edit: Jesus, talk about thread necromancy. Been 7 months and it's still not in the help file... Last edited by putnam; 06/02/06 08:03 PM.

Re: Smart Quotes #123937 01/03/06 05:02 AM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 18 Melbourne, VIC, AU Zyxak OP Pikka bird
OP Zyxak Pikka bird Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 18 Melbourne, VIC, AU	Quote: The same combination doesn't work in Notepad or any other default "Editbox" in Windows applications, so I'm inclined to think it's built into mIRC but not documented. I have since discovered that these same key combinations also work within Microsoft Outlook, Word and WordPad. I'm now inclined to beleive that this is a Windows feature which has undocumented support in mIRC. =Z=

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