# Replacement of straight quotes with curly quotes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666 "2017-09-07T05:52:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/1 "2017-09-07T05:52:39Z")

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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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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/2 "2017-09-07T07:26:59Z")

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Testing;

[]  
{}

```auto
{}
[]

```

Edit - can you link or show an example?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/3 "2017-09-07T07:47:01Z")

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

{"foo": "bar"}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/4 "2017-09-07T07:53:09Z")

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Ahh sorry. (Too much json :p)

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**Author:** ![thiago](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiago/32/32096_2.png) [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/5 "2017-09-07T07:57:18Z")

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I also find this hideous.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/6 "2017-09-07T07:58:06Z")

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@system can you comment on this please?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/7 "2017-09-07T14:27:14Z")

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Hi!

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

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/8 "2017-09-08T01:09:15Z")

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Thanks!

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

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacement-of-straight-quotes-with-curly-quotes/99666/9 "2017-12-19T19:17:01Z")

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