In reply to the second part of the question of
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.0903/date/article-639.html
Apart from the faqs ( http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/quote.html
) to which Martin Weiss pointed in his answer, the following may help, too:
It is important to distinguish two kinds of single quotes: *starting* or
"left quotes" and *ending* or "right quotes". Single quotes are often
printed as curved quotes. The appearance of quotes thus printed often
differs from how they look on your keyboard and screen. Try 'help
quotes' to see how they look on the screen. Using Courier font, the word
"shortcut" inclosed in left and right quotes looks like this: `shortcut'.
Keyboard layouts differ. The only safe thing to say is that the left
quote corresponds to the decimal ASCII code 96, whereas the right quote
corresponds to the decimal ASCII code 39. On most keyboards the left
quote is produced by pressing a dead key, meaning that nothing is
produced until you hit the spacebar (on many US and UK keyboards you can
simply press the upper left key). A left quote is produced by pressing
the key(-combination) that produces an accent starting top left ("accent
grave" or backtick). A right quote is produced by pressing the single
quote key (apostrophe).
Dirk
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Institute of Criminal Sciences
Dept. of Criminology
Schlueterstr. 28
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
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