Top "Smart-quotes" questions

Smart quotes is a feature offered by some software (such as text editors), which automatically replaces vertical quotes and apostrophes with typographic quote characters (e.g. ‘ or ’, “ or ”) as user types.

HTML Best Practices: Should I use ’ or the special keyboard shortcut?

I know that ’ will produce an apostrophe in an HTML document. I also know that option shift right …

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Converting ″Straight Quotes″ to “Curly Quotes”

I have an application which uses a Javascript-based rules engine. I need a way to convert regular straight quotes into …

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SQL to replace smart quotes

Does anyone know a SQL command to replace MS Office smart quotes with their ASCII cousins? I'm using an oracle …

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