I entered a line with regular quotes, and one with smart quotes. So, I went 1 step further and put them in a word file. Let's put them in a simple UTF-8 encoded text file. Well, anyway, here are the unicodes for these smart quotes: In my previous answer I thought you meant "backticks", which is a different thing. Nevertheless, here's how word would store an ` and ì symbol.Ī bit confusing, but I just realized that by "smart quote" you probably refer to the mechanism that Word has to represent the curly quotes. But having said all that, storing an ` or an ì isn't a problem.Īnd more importantly, the file format does not really have anything to do with copy-paste behavior of the application itself. Just for the sake of completeness, that does not mean that all UTF-8 characters can actually be used in an xml file.
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UTF-8 supports the full set of Unicode characters.
an xml prolog): Īs you can see, it's an UTF-8 encoding. One of these files, is the document.xml file, which starts with the following line (i.e. These days a docx file is really a bunch of compressed xml files.