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By: Svetoslav

Svetoslav — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:59:24 +0000

It seems that filter should be removed from the comments as well.

By: Data Unbound » Changing various annoying aspects of WordPress

Data Unbound » Changing various annoying aspects of WordPress — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:46:27 +0000

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By: amanda

amanda — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:32:33 +0000

This is the official “right way” to address this stuff, at least in 2.x:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/125038

You want something like:
remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’);

in your “functions.php”

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By: Tickled to Death » Blog Archive » Dumb Quotes

Tickled to Death » Blog Archive » Dumb Quotes — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:51:59 +0000

[...] I don’t see what’s so horrible about Basic ASCII that WordPress had to add “smart quotes” and whatnot. Under your WordPress installation, in wp-includes/functions-formatting.php, there’s a “wptexturize” method that has several preg_replace’s that change your single- and double-quotes into extended set (unicode even?) characters that perhaps look a bit more professional but also aren’t represented in every font out there. I hadn’t noticed as Bitstream Vera handles them just fine, but in the interests of globalization, I went ahead and commented out that bit of code. Thanks to a phpied.com post for this information and a commenter for pointing out WP’s folly. [...]

By: stuart

stuart — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:33:29 +0000

This doesn’t work. Smart Quotes need another solution.

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:10:58 +0000

Neither solution is OK. Leaving quotes in the xml will produce errors. You need to leave at least one filter, to change the quote marks into ".