Replacement of straight quotes with curly quotes

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It appears that Discourse in the past few weeks started replacing regular straight quotes with curly quotes. Could we do something about that? It's annoying to have to search/replace those characters if you're copying a JSON snippet or a portion from a configuration file into e.g. a terminal in order to reproduce something.

It's bad enough that Discourse is damaging posts that contains angle bracket sequences that look like XML/HTML elements.

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Testing;

[]
{}

{}
[]

Edit - can you link or show an example?

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Curly quotes, not brackets or parentheses. Try parsing this piece of JSON:

{"foo": "bar"}

4

Ahh sorry. (Too much json :p)

5

I also find this hideous.

6

@discourse can you comment on this please?

7

Hi!

This is a new feature added recently with our markdown engine update. To
remove it, disable the enable markdown typographer site setting.

8

Thanks!

I've made this change, let's see how it goes.