[Solved] Turning off Smart Quotes

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[Solved] Turning off Smart Quotes

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Many if not most web browsers interpret the smart quotes (the curly " marks that auto-replace the normal quote marks) with broken icons. I tried tools: auto-correct options: replace "standard" quotes with "custom" quotes" but they still come up. How can I get normal quotes?

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Hi,
disable Replace under Custom Quotes
custom_quotes.png
[see also the information under Options
[M]: Replace while modifying existing text]
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Many if not most web browsers interpret the smart quotes (the curly " marks that auto-replace the normal quote marks) with broken icons.
Can you give an example of this? I've not noticed it before.

Also, I'm not entirely clear on what the quotes in Writer have to do with your web browser. Can you explain a little more about what you're trying to do?
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Thanks, that worked.
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quote="franx"]Hi,
disable Replace under Custom Quotes
custom_quotes.png
[see also the information under Options
[M]: Replace while modifying existing text][/quote]
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Many if not most web browsers interpret the smart quotes (the curly " marks that auto-replace the normal quote marks) with broken icons.
That may depend on Menu - View - Character set. You may want to experiment with Western (ISO8859-1), Unicode (UTF8), etc, until a page with curly quotation marks looks okay.
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Re: Turning off Smart Quotes

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Hmmm...

Well... I made a web page to demonstrate the problem for you, but both worked fine (i.e. with and without the smart quotes).
When I first began working on the Web in the late 90's I composed most of my posts using Word, then copy and pasted to my site. That was when I first noticed the problem. I used to I got a little box where the quotes were supposed to be, and so I always kept "smart quotes" turned off. I just assumed the same would be true with Open Office. We are having a storm right now so I decided to use my lap top for a study I am working on instead of my desk top in case we lose power, and it uses Open Office. Apparently this is no longer a problem.
Thanks for your help.
acknak wrote:
Many if not most web browsers interpret the smart quotes (the curly " marks that auto-replace the normal quote marks) with broken icons.
Can you give an example of this? I've not noticed it before.

Also, I'm not entirely clear on what the quotes in Writer have to do with your web browser. Can you explain a little more about what you're trying to do?
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Thanks for the follow up. I guessed that might be the case.

The problem was that Microsoft implemented their "smart quotes" in a way that was not standard or compatible with the rest of the web. OOo has always used the standard Unicode characters for the typographic ("curly") quotation marks, and they work fine with any recent browser.
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:bravo:
That's definitely the better approach.
I was too much focused on the topic "Turning off Smart Quotes".
But we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater ...
[... or "reset the user profile" for every undetermined discrepancy ... ;) ]
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How quotes effects your browser: document writing programs such as Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer change a left quote to a curly left quote, and a right quote to a curly right quote. Your browser interprets the curly quote as a special character, which it can't read, and replaces the quote with a big ugly question mark. However, you SHOULD NOT be using quotes within your text strings. They should be replaced with " Example: "The brown fox jumped over the fence"
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Re: [Solved] Turning off Smart Quotes

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Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your point.

As far as I know, there should be no problem using standard typographic (curly) quotes in html document text.

For example, does your browser have trouble with these? “ ”

OOo Writer uses the standard quote characters, and no special treatment is needed.
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