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

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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