so i want to use ' and -- in my code, which is embedded via \starttyping
\stoptyping, but that’s impossible.
context replaces -- with – and ' with ’. that’s wrong. i need to be able to
tell context it shouldn’t do any “smart” stuff, since i’m smart enough to
press the ’-key if i want the character ’.

so what i ask for:

   1. we should change the standard behavior of context to “don’t replace
   --, ' and whatnot in verbatim areas”
   2. we should be able to trigger this globally, for people who have a
   useful keyboard layout and can type “special” characters as fast as ascii.

is the latter already built in somehow?