On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) "harry newton"
wrote in article
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?

Curly quotes (dastardly) are "normal" quotes. The straight quotes were
ASCII (and EBCDIC) excuses for "real" (dastardly, curly) quotes...