[NTLUG:Discuss] 'Smart quotes' in a konsole window

[Leroy Tennison]

Does anyone know how you get these when working in konsole?  I was doing 
the following and wondering why it didn't work (thought I was either 
going crazy or totally misunderstanding regular expressions):

grep “\(first\|third\)” test3

It wasn't until I did:

grep "\(first\|third\)" test3

and saw it work that I started comparing the two and noticed the 
difference in the double quote characters.  Unfortunately I had no idea 
how I entered them originally (I wasn't doing anything special that I 
knew I was doing).  I did copy/paste both lines into a file and look at 
it with hexdump.  The first quote is a multibyte sequence (e2 80 9c) and 
the second is a single byte (22).  Another point is that, in konsole, 
the 'Smart Quotes' don't look at they appear above (in my Thunderbird 
composition window, I hope emailing this doesn't cause 'conversions' to 
take place).  The first 'Smart Quote' looks like two commas 
superscripted and turned upside down, the second 'Smart Quote' looks 
like two commas superscripted but not turned upside down.  You get the 
same look in OpenOffice.org Writer 3.01 when you use double quotes.