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Old 07-25-2016
Bash not recognizing single quotes in Mac?
Hi, I just bought a new mac and have been running a program out of terminal, but even early on I noticed that my single quotes looked a lot different from the ones used in all of the namelists and other files of the program. Specifically, mine are kind of slanted whereas the others are very straight up and down. I've also noticed now that my quotes aren't being recognized as the same symbol as the straight up and down ones, forcing me to copy and paste a lot while I'm editing the inlists of the program. Has anyone else had this problem or possibly know how to fix it? Thanks!
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Old 07-25-2016
Not while using vi. What editor are you using?
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Old 07-25-2016
I had just been using TextEdit, but when I did use vi i didn't have he problem anymore. Not sure what was happening with the other one but will definitely be sticking to vi now, thanks!
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Old 07-25-2016
If you ever happen to use it Microsoft Word has the same "feature". I never understood why typesetters needed nine kinds of apostrophes.
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Old 07-25-2016
The following text was written using TextEdit with the Smart Quotes option enabled:
Quote:
“This is a double-quoted string containing a quote: “Hello World”.”
‘This is a single-quoted string containing a quote: ‘Hello World'.'
I don't mind text formatted this way in a book or newspaper, but it isn't suitable for C, shell, or any other programming language source code. And, if C, shell, or any other programming language source code is displayed in a book or newspaper, typesetter's quotes MUST NOT be used in the book or newspaper for that code either.
The following text was written using TextEdit with the Smart Quotes option disabled:
Quote:
"This is a double-quoted string containing a quote: "Hello World"."
'This is a single-quoted string containing a quote: 'Hello World'.'
I don't mind text formatted this way in a book or newspaper, and it is suitable for C, shell, or any other programming language source code.
In TextEdit on OS X release 10.11.6 (El Capitan), the Smart Quotes option can be enabled or disabled in the Edit menu Substitutions sub-menu. Note that Smart Quotes is not the only option available in TextEdit that will select varying characters based on context that will break source code. Other than for writing examples like this post, I NEVER use TextEdit.
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Old 07-26-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
If you ever happen to use it Microsoft Word has the same "feature". I never understood why typesetters needed nine kinds of apostrophes.
Because typesetters typeset text not only in english. Sorry to say that, but especially americans think that diacriticals are mere decoration while in fact they are often vital to convey a certain meaning.

I once read the (german) tempo-command "mäßig bewegt" in an american music score-sheet (Hindemith, Sonata for Horn in F major, op. 11) made into "massig bewegt". The funny thing was that "massig" is in fact a word in german, as well as "mäßig". "Massig" comes from "Masse" (mass) and means "with (great) mass", while "mäßig" comes from "Maß" (measure) and means "measured(ly)" or "somewhat". So instead of "measuredly moving" it read "massively moving".

Sorry for that non-technical interruption, but this has to be said sometimes.

bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 07-26-2016 at 04:42 AM..
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Old 07-26-2016
And they did that by using the wrong quotation mark?
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