Solves "smartquote" formatting issue

[hayfordoleary]

When an item is copied from Microsoft Word -- or any app that automatically creates smart quotes -- WordPress prints the crude symbol into the HTML, causing encoding issues.

The basic dealio. Pardon the poor Trac formatting.

Patch is stale.

I'm tempted to close this ticket as i believe the issue to be larger than just smart quotes. "WordPress allows users to insert text which isn't supported by the current character set" may be more accurate :-)

Replying to pishmishy:

I'm tempted to close this ticket as i believe the issue to be larger than just smart quotes. "WordPress allows users to insert text which isn't supported by the current character set" may be more accurate :-)

Wow, you are talking extreme difficulty.

Actually.

1. This is easily solved by switching to UTF-8 encoding. I've tested this and know that it works. I have a site that uses WordPress (2.3.1) and has no problem with people copying Word Documents.

2. If I didn't want them to submit those characters, I would easily write a plugin that strips out those characters and replace them. However, I don't wish for this to be the normal behavior, since well, if I do have UTF-8 encoding, then it won't make a difference to me. However, I didn't then yeah, I would want those characters stripped out.

I'm in complete agreement with you there. WordPress should make sure that the contents of a post are valid characters in the current character set, or it can be left to plugins.

I think we should close this ticket and leave it to someone to raise that as another ticket if it's something they care about.

Correction.

ISO-8859-1 automatically converts the smart quotes over, go figure. There might be some relevance of this ticket after all. I'll go over and try to create a patch, but this field is out of my reach, so I'm unsure how successful I'd be.

Resources:

​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1

​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_quotes

​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

More:

​http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/oct/convert-smart-quotes-with-php

Still More:

​http://krijnhoetmer.nl/stuff/php/converting-numeric-character-references/

wonfix?

Related: #8285

I am unable to reproduce that at all. Either wontfix or worksforme. Anyway, a step by step instruction on how to reproduce is missing. What are "smart quotes"? I think this term is pretty misleading.

Probably not current anymore.