> I don't know who actually likes curly quotes

For reading, I don’t know who prefers straight quotes.

For writing—

There are more than a few people on HN who deliberately type curly quotes and other non-ASCII punctuation, due to a strong preference for them. I’m one of them.

I use Compose sequences: ; ; for left single quote, : : for left double, ' ' for right single, " " for right double.

(Accordingly, I hate being subjected to automatic curlification, partly because it’s not always correct, but more because if I typed ' or " you better believe I meant ' or ".)