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Hi EE,

For some reason, any quotes in my weblog entry titles are converted to curly quotes. For instance a single quote ’ shows up in the page source as & #8221; (space added). I’ve copied and pasted from plain text and retyped the quotes to ensure there was no “pasting from Word” or similar issue, but nothing does the trick. My guess is that EE is converting these quotes into curly quotes at some point.

The problem with this is that Authorize.net chokes on these curly quotes, which appear in a number of product names in our store. Checking the database shows regular double quotes, so I’m not really sure where the transition is taking place.

Any idea?

Does anyone from the EE team care to weigh in? I normally don’t bump but this is a vital issue and I’m hoping someone on the dev team has an idea. It may not be an EE issue but I’m not sure what else it could be.

Here is the version info:

EE 1.6.9 build 20100430

Thanks.

vosSavant,

What have you got set for Automatically Convert High ASCII Text to Entities

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Hi John,

Many thanks - I’ve tried that setting on both “yes” and “no” without success. Also tried clearing caches after changing it to “yes” but no luck.

I’d tend to use Low’s Replace to replace the curly quote with the regular quote. This plugin also works for EE2.x.

{exp:replace find="’" replace="'"}
{title}
{/exp:replace}

Does that help?

Wow Sue, thanks a bunch for that recommendation. I hadn’t thought to do a simple find/replace. Worked like a charm!

Unrelated note…are you working on the forum CSS? Looks like it’s not loading all the way on my end. Could be that you’re still in transition, but I’d want to know if I were you 😉

So, does that completely solve your issue, vosSavant?

Yes, thanks Ingmar. I appreciate everyone taking a look at this and getting my problem solved. Also…congrats on the 2.1 release. Very good stuff.

Thank you, and glad to hear it 😊 please post again as needed.