As a developer, I actually prefer that this is a loss-less transformation. One of my biggest peeves with apps that do automatic quotes by find/replace is that they become lossy channels — I paste working code in one end, and I get broken code out the other.

Maybe the right solution is to force programming languages to use ”Real Quotes“ for strings, so that it doesn't matter (though en-dashes for post-increment makes less sense...) :)

I strongly agree — anyone who professes to be a true expert in a field should have at least some knowledge of all the fields that interact with their discipline.

I have jelzo.com, homophonic for password in Hungarian. Not doing much with it right now...