Quoted text ending in number foils "smart" quotes

[cherylontheweb]

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″

[Otto42]

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.

[cherylontheweb]

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.

[mrmist]

See also #4539 #3810 #4116 #1258 #7754

[ryan]

Duping against #8775, which has a patch.