How to stop plain "quote" symbols from being replaced by rococco “quote” symbols

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  seanwal111111 · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 3:03 am

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  My plain “quote” symbols are being automatically replaced by the rococco “quote” symbols. I want to stop this from happening. How?

  Also, where I can find the documentation about this, please?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 3:09 am

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  Are you typing directly into the post box or are you doing copy-pasting from Word or something else?

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  seanwal111111 · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 3:37 am

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  I’ve both typed directly in the edit box and pasted HTML text into the edit box. Either way, the result is that plain quotes and plain apostrophes are silently converted to rococo ones.

  I dislike the rococo quotes but it’d be too minor to bother with wanting to get rid of them if weren’t for the fact that the conversion is messed up in a number of contexts. E.g. the quote marks in the text

  “this <i>quote</i>”.

  get converted to two open rococo quote marks instead of one open and one closed. That is, when an italicized word is followed by a close quote followed by a fullstop symbol, the close quote is erroneously converted to an open quote by the system.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 4:01 am

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  It’s possible that’s built into your theme. Try previewing a few others and see if the change persists.

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  seanwal111111 · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 2:20 pm

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  Thank you for the reply. I expect you’re right it’s something built into the particular theme and there’s no option for removing it. The few themes I’ve tried all have it. I don’t see any documentation about which themes have or don’t have it, or where to find a theme that doesn’t have it.

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  windwhistle · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 6:29 pm

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  Depending on the sentence, a full stop symbol is normally placed inside a close quote. Placing it outside the close quote means, logically, that the next quote mark will begin a new sentence and should be an open quote. Try putting the period inside the close quote. (The italics, incidentally, have no effect on the quote marks.)

  In the past I’ve sometimes gotten around this by typing both an open and a close quote and then deleting the one I don’t want. Also, some fonts have “curly” or “smart” quotes and some don’t. It’s possible the font you use to compose your post has plain quotes but the one you are using for your published posts has only curly quotes.