#4491 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
Quoted text ending in number foils "smart" quotes
Reported by: | cherylontheweb | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | lowest | |
Severity: | minor | Version: | 2.2 |
Component: | Formatting | Keywords: | needs-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
The end quote of a quoted string is different when the string ends in a number (and is also in that case inconsistent with the starting quote); I have to assume there is a bug here? (not running any plugins that could account for this)
Example: "one" is encoded as “one” but "1" is encoded as “1″
Or take this test example..
"1" "one" "11" "one1" "12"
.. which is encoded as..
“1″ “one” “11″ “one1″ “12″
Change History (12)
#4
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17 years ago
Interesting, thanks for your comments. Inches notation is USA-centric, I've not heard of another country that uses it - given I live in Germany and I can't turn off this USA notation, I would say this is a small bug.
For anyone else with this problem: workaround is not to use quotes around phrases that end in numbers but to use the HTML itself: “your_text”
If rich text editor is on you have to do this in the source.
#10
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15 years ago
- Milestone 2.8 deleted
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from new to closed
Duping against #8775, which has a patch.
After a number, it converts a quote into a "double prime" character, which is usually used to represent inches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)
This is done by wptexturize(), and there's probably not a particularly good solution for it.