One click disable wptexturize()

[jidanni]

I would like to propose a one click item in the administration panels

[x] enhance quote marks (or whatever, yes checkmark=on by default).

where one could, with one click, disable wptexturize(), _without any
plugins_ or e.g., bug #8929.

That way, one could by default, just have an old fashioned ASCII blog.

You see many devices do not necessarily support all of UTF-8, and more
importantly many older user think giving our text haridoos is plain
unprofessional. "School requires all our hair to have curls this year."

No I'm not sure if clicking it should/would change text already in the
database.

I'm not just saying one click to make it now do
wptexturize($text){return $text;}
It is more complicated than that, wptexturize is scattered around the code doing various roles.

Anyway, please keep this bug on the back burner as a long term
wishlist noting that some users feel wptexturize is so silly and there
should be a way to disable it from the admin panels without a plugin.

[jidanni]

Take MediaWiki for example. It would never think of "enhancing" what the user entered, even though it has pretty CSS, etc.
So it is quite a shock that one needs to turn to plugins, etc. just to
stop this from happening in WordPress.

And no, one does not only wish to stop this "MicroSoft style
'moronizing'" of characters only when entering computer code snippets,
but for plain text too.

Indeed, even the goofiest of word processors has a switch to turn such
silliness off, but with WordPress one needs to hack or plugin.

[nbachiyski]

That's the purpose of plugins -- to let you change you don't like.

[jidanni]

OK, but let it be stated here for the record, that

1. You all are like MicroSoft and I am like the

​http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ author.

2. Plugins will never be able to catch up with all the places you

distort text with each new release. Only a centralized switch
(checkbox) in the official WordPress can possibly catch them all.