November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 9m
English
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Hack #26. Convert Straight Quotes
Automatically convert straight quotes to "smart" quotes, like word processors do.
You are typographically cool. You use smart publishing software to automatically convert boring straight quotes and apostrophes to their curly Unicode equivalents. Don't you also want to flaunt your coolness when you post comments on other sites? Now you can! This hack takes straight quotes and other plain typography in web forms and replaces them with their curly equivalents.
The Code
This user script runs on all pages. It traps form submission and smartens straight quotes in <textarea> elements of web forms.
Save the following user script as smartquotes.user.js:
// ==UserScript== // @name Smart Quotes // @namespace http://www.slightlyremarkable.com/ // @description Curlify typography in web forms // @include * // ==/UserScript== // based on code by Jonathan Fenocchi // and included here with his gracious permission function filterChars(formatted) { var temp = new Array(); var count = 0; var DELIM_CHAR = '\u00A4'; var BASE_CHAR = '\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-'+ '\u00F6\u00F8-\u00FF\u0100-\u0131\u0134-\u013E\u0141-\u0148\u014A-'+ '\u017E\u0180-\u01C3\u01CD-\u01F0\u01F4-\u01F5\u01FA-\u0217\u0250-'+ '\u02A8\u02BB-\u02C1\u0386\u0388-\u038A\u038C\u038E-\u03A1\u03A3-'+ '\u03CE\u03D0-\u03D6\u03DA\u03DC\u03DE\u03E0\u03E2-\u03F3\u0401-'+ '\u040C\u040E-\u044F\u0451-\u045C\u045E-\u0481\u0490-\u04C4\u04C7-'+ '\u04C8\u04CB-\u04CC\u04D0-\u04EB\u04EE-\u04F5\u04F8-\u04F9\u0531-'+ ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.