[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9655: Banishing ASCII quotes and apostrophes. Consolidated patch

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#9655: Banishing ASCII quotes and apostrophes.  Consolidated patch
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 Reporter:  demetris     |       Owner:           
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.8      
Component:  UI           |     Version:  2.8      
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  has-patch
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 Please commit this before we go into string freeze for 2.8! :-)

 The patch replaces all ASCII quotes (double and single) in the admin area
 with proper double quotes (characters 8220 and 8221), and all ASCII
 apostrophes with proper apostrophes (char. 8217).

 I also found a few apostrophes that were typed literally (no escaping)
 within strings enclosed in double quotes.  It seemed to me this was the
 only reason double quotes were used for those strings, so, in those few
 cases, I also changed the double quotes enclosing the strings to single
 quotes.

 I did not change the single ASCII quotes for some JS confirm dialogs.
 E.g.:

 'Cancel' to stop, 'OK' to proceed.

 I think these single quotes are not needed at all.  (My personal
 preference is to use quotation marks sparingly — only when absolutely
 necessary.)

 There are also quite a few triple dots (...) that could be replaced with
 the ellipsis character, but I think it’s not worth disturbing strings just
 to put typographical ellipses in them.  Triple dots seem fine to me.

 PS.  I would not go into the trouble of making this patch, but some
 instances are in prominent places, like the installer (first impression!)
 or in widgets descriptions.

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