Curly quotations can become quite a problem if you are typing code into an text editor.

What are smart quotes and dashes. Plain quotes and short dashes are always OK. Just a guess but is this due to the Mac Keyboard system preferences that has smart quotes and dashes enabled. If necessary select Use smart quotes and dashes a checkmark shows its on.

Occasionally a user will paste text from Word containing smart quotes or emdashes. Here they are again side-by-side so you can more easily see the difference. Any quote following an em dash -- is now formatted as an open quote rather than closed quote.

75 rows Smart quotes also known as curly quotes typographers quotes or proper. If you are using a Word file with these symbols you may need to remove them or replace them with entity characters. Start by typing the opening quote immediately followed by the closing quote.

â â ✠â What function should I call on the input string to convert smart quotes to regular quotes and emdashes to regular dashes. A third approach is to add a couple of shortcuts to the em dash and closing quote. I am working in PHP.

Use smart quotes and dashes Automatically convert straight quotation marks to typographical curly ones and double hyphens to em dashes. Plain straight quotes and long dashes such as em dash and en dash are actually considered special characters in HTML. They are generally considered easier for reading purposes and they give room for straight quotes to fill their own purpose.

Turn into Turn into or more beautiful quotation marks Or. Improve the readability of your documents by using smart quotes and their Web-ability with straight quotes. They can easily be disabled by following these steps.