harry newton wrote:

How can we convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on
Windows?
http://i67.tinypic.com/2h5mjbr.jpg

I like to save into TEXT files on Windows technical information cut and
pasted from disjoint news articles where the unprintable curly quotes
drive me nuts!

Here is a screenshot of a sample cut and paste:
http://i67.tinypic.com/2h5mjbr.jpg

I tried cutting from the web and pasting into MS Word and then cutting
from MS Word and pasting into the text file - but the dastardly curly
quotes were still there.

I tried using Google Gmail, pasting into a composition window and then
hitting the "Tx" format text button, and even changing the font to some
other font, but the dastardly curly quotes were still there.

Since almost every technical web site uses the dastardly curly quotes,
how can I just get *rid* of them using a Windows method so that I can
have a text file that contains normal quotes?

Here's just one sample but the web is filled with dastardly curly
quotes!
http://theverge.com/2017/10/6/164377...ttery-issue-ap
ple-investigating

Copy the text to your text editor (or if already in a text file, open the
file). Select a "curly quote", copy it. Replace all, paste the copied curly
into the "find this" box, and then type a regular quote in the "replace it
with this" box, replace all. Repeat for the "close curly quotes".

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