[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5518: Missing option to turn off "Fancy Quotes"

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#5518: Missing option to turn off "Fancy Quotes"
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:           
Component:  Administration     |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:           
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 WordPress currently replaces "regular" quotes with “fancy” quotes by
 default, and there is no way to turn this off other than hacking away at
 wp-includes/formatting.php

 Fancy quotes are fine in English, but other languages have other needs and
 WordPress should accommodate that - at least in so far as letting users
 turn off the automatic conversion and using whatever quote style they
 want.

 For e.g., Hebrew uses regular quotes and not fancy quotes, but currently
 Hebrew users using WordPress get fancy quotes in all their posts.

 I propose adding an option for turning off fancy quotes, in the same way
 that emoticons can be turned off in Writing page of the Settings section
 in the administration interface.

 Alternatively, WordPress can automatically default to the correct quote
 style to use according to the locale set in wp-config.php, or according to
 a variable set for every local distribution.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5518>
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