[wp-testers] Smart Quotes and Commenting

[Sean Hayford O'Leary]

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2015

Well, I took a chance and added a ticket.


On 12/1/05, Sean Hayford O'Leary <hayfordoleary at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, this is also a problem if you copy-and-paste something from, say,
> Microsoft Word into WordPress.
>
> It's easy to fix (and I apologise -- I'm not comfortable enough with Trac
> to submit it there). Around line 18 in wp-includes/functions-
> formatting.php, add:
>
>    $curl = str_replace('"', '&#8220;', $curl);
>    $curl = str_replace('"', '&#8221;', $curl);
>    $curl = str_replace('' ', '&#8216;', $curl);
>    $curl = str_replace('' ', '&#8217;', $curl);
>    $curl = str_replace('… ', '&#8230;', $curl);
>    $curl = str_replace(' –', '&#8212;', $curl);
>
> That should solve most basic problems. If someone wants to add this to the
> Trac, feel free ;).
>
>  On 12/1/05, Rick Beckman <rick.beckman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed in one of my recent comments that if someone posts
> > "smart quotes" in a comment (for example, by quoting text that
> > Wordpress has formatted in a post), the quotes are saved as their
> > actual characters, rather than being converted into entity form. I
> > remember reading several months ago elsewhere that this could possibly
> > break certain feed readers?
> >
> > I'm not sure if it would make it into 2.0, but has any thought ever
> > been given to automatically saving certain characters as their
> > entities to preserve compatibility?
> >
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>
>
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> Sean Hayford O'Leary
>
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