[wp-testers] ASCII translations/WYSIWYG

Hayford O'Leary, Sean hayfordoleary at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 19:53:14 GMT 2005


This seems like a good temporary fix for me, though -- when it works -- I
enjoy the "fancy quotes."

It might be nice if there were an option to turn them off, though.

On 11/18/05, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
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