“Put it in ‘quotes’”, he said. So I did.
This thus shows the result of using 'smart quotes' - in the line above, but not in this one - with MovableType.
I'll update this later after I find out what happens.
“Big test. Very ‘big’ test.” (1)
“Big test. Very ‘big’ test.” (2)
UPDATE: After some experimenting, mutatron has been half-converted to UTF-8 encoding. Part of this experiment was trying several ways to generate paired quotes, which can cause severe breakdowns in software if not handled properly.
For the technically minded, the first line at the top uses XML numeric entities. The first test line (1) uses HTML named entities, and the test line (2) uses UTF-8 encoding.
The last is perferable because it allows cut and paste. Unfortunately, for this to work properly, the posting pages must also be marked UTF-8. I haven't quite worked out how to do that in MovableType, although I'm close.
For now, some things look very strange. That last test line, which begins “Big test does not look that way in the edit page. I see “Big test, but it all comes out OK in the end. Once the edit page is also set to be UTF-8, then everything should look just fine.