Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on Windows?

He who is harry newton said on Sat, 7 Oct 2017 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC):

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/2017/10/6/16437790/iphone-8-swollen-battery-issue-apple-investigating

TESTED SOLUTION:
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The vi "ga" command reports the following decimal values:
'9' apostrophe is decimal 146 (aka %d146) == replace with decimal 39 (')
'66' smartquote is decimal 147 (aka %d147) == replace with decimal 34 (")
'99' smartquote is decimal 148 (aka %d148) == replace with decimal 34 (")
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To replace curly apostrophes with straight apostrophes on Windows
:%s/control+q+146/'/g
To replace curly quotes with straight quotes on Windows
:%s/[control+q+147,control+q+148]/"/g
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ROUGH TRANSLATION:
: = command
% = for the entire file
s = search
/ = for
control+q = a non-keyboard value follows) - use control+v on Linux
146 = the non-keyboard decimal value for the '9' curly apostrophe
/ = then replace it with
' = the normal standard keyboard apostrophe
/g = and do that globally for all instances found
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QED