It varies for me. I'll often use the "easy" stuff like emdashes, but generally don't bother with chiral quotes and so forth. I'll also use a few special characters like hearts and a trademark symbol. And I don't think I've ever bothered with ligatures for LJ. I've also started opting for using asterisks for *emphasis* instead of <em> tags, as the ASCII version I get emailed when a posting or comment gets a comment is really ugly (I don't do HTML email).
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bother with chiral quotes and so forth. I'll also use a few special characters like
hearts and a trademark symbol. And I don't think I've ever bothered with
ligatures for LJ. I've also started opting for using asterisks for *emphasis*
instead of <em> tags, as the ASCII version I get emailed when a posting
or comment gets a comment is really ugly (I don't do HTML email).