[wp-testers] ASCII translations/WYSIWYG

[Doug Stewart]

On 11/18/05, Hayford O'Leary, Sean <hayfordoleary at gmail.com> wrote:
> A problem (using build 3104) -- when you first publish a post using symbols
> like  "  and ' WP translates them to the appropriate ASCII codes of their
> more elegant siblings &#8220;/&#8221; and &#8217;. The problem occurs when
> you go to edit that post again and save -- instead of keeping the ASCII
> codes, it puts the literal symbols in the HTML, making it impossible to
> validate and screwy in many browsers.
>
> Another related issue is that when you copy something in from Word or
> another application that automatically translates plain quotes to
> "smartquotes," etc/ -- WP doesn't convert those, posing the same threat.
>

Unfancy Quote is your friend:
http://www.semiologic.com/software/unfancy-quote/

I absolutely despise the fact that WP tries for quote trickery from
the very beginning - those obnoxious quotes are the bane of browsers'
existence on non-'Doze platforms, so I do my very best to strip them
out.