[CentOS-devel] wrong symbol for strings(") in vagrant box description

[Rafal Skolasinski]

Hi,

I noticed that next line of code, the one with ``disabled: true`` has
proper " so I thought it was just typo.

Best,
Rafal

On 22 June 2017 at 18:49, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

> On 22/06/17 18:31, Laurențiu Păncescu wrote:
> > Hi Rafal,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:49 PM Rafal Skolasinski
> > <r.j.skolasinski at gmail.com <mailto:r.j.skolasinski at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I just noticed that
> >     in https://seven.centos.org/2017/06/updated-centos-vagrant-
> images-available-v1705-01/
> >
> >     line that reads about sync folders
> >
> >     config.vm.synced_folder “.”, “/vagrant”, type: “virtualbox”
> >
> >
> >     uses the wrong symbol for strings (") and after copying into
> >     Vagrantfile causes a cryptic error message.
> >
> >
> > This is caused  by Wordpress' typography "feature" that changes regular
> > quotes into "smart quotes" everywhere, even in <code> elements. There's
> > no Wordpress setting to disable that, as far as I know, but it seems
> > doable via plugins. [1]
> >
> > I remember we received complaints in the past about copy&paste of code
> > examples being broken (in blog comments on seven.c.o). Since I only have
> > "author" privileges in Wordpress, there's nothing I can do about it
> > myself, but it's good you brought it up here. I think such typography
> > features make less sense for technical blogs like ours than they do for
> > humanistic contents.
> >
> > Any thoughts from a seven.c.o admin?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Laurențiu
> >
> > [1] http://www.lancebledsoe.com/how-to-turn-off-wordpress-smart-quotes/
> >
>
> That "plugin" looks sane and shouldn't be intrusive so we can enable it
> (and so not be afraid of a compatibility issue for next WP update)
>
> Let me enable it and see how it goes
>
>
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