For some reason, SmartyPants (or, at least, the Text::Typography perl module that uses the SmartyPants algorithm) defaults to using -- for en-dashes (--) and ---...
For some reason, SmartyPants (or, at least, the Text::Typography perl module that uses the SmartyPants algorithm) defaults to using -- for en-dashes (--) and ---...
I wrote a script for [irssi][], that uses [SmartyPants][] to turn normal quote marks into fancy ones in messages you send. [irssi]: http://irssi.org/ [SmartyPants]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/...
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