If I put text in plain quotes inside of parentheses ("like this"), Wordpress mistranslates the quotes into curly quotes. I have a simple patch against wp-includes/formatting.php (tag 2.2.1, revision 5735) that should fix this. It makes open-parens (and open-brackets) "transparent" to left curly quotes, and close-parens (and close-brackets) "transparent" to right curly quotes.
Cheers,
- Bob
Index: formatting.php
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--- formatting.php (revision 5772)
+++ formatting.php (working copy)
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
$static_characters = array_merge(array('---', ' -- ', '--', 'xn–', '...', '``', '\'s', '\'\'', ' (tm)'), $cockney);
$static_replacements = array_merge(array('—', ' — ', '–', 'xn--', '…', '“', '’s', '”', ' ™'), $cockneyreplace);
- $dynamic_characters = array('/\'(\d\d(?:’|\')?s)/', '/(\s|\A|")\'/', '/(\d+)"/', '/(\d+)\'/', '/(\S)\'([^\'\s])/', '/(\s|\A)"(?!\s)/', '/"(\s|\S|\Z)/', '/\'([\s.]|\Z)/', '/(\d+)x(\d+)/');
- $dynamic_replacements = array('’$1','$1‘', '$1″', '$1′', '$1’$2', '$1“$2', '”$1', '’$1', '$1×$2');
+ $dynamic_characters = array('/\'(\d\d(?:’|\')?s)/', '/(\s|\A|")\'/', '/(\d+)"/', '/(\d+)\'/', '/(\S)\'([^\'\s])/', '/(\s|\A)([\[(]*)"(?!\s)/', '/"([\])]*)(\s|\S|\Z)/', '/\'([\s.]|\Z)/', '/(\d+)x(\d+)/');
+ $dynamic_replacements = array('’$1','$1‘', '$1″', '$1′', '$1’$2', '$1$2“$3', '”$1$2', '’$1', '$1×$2');
for ( $i = 0; $i < $stop; $i++ ) {
$curl = $textarr[$i];
