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SmartQuotes

Questions answered by this recipe

How do I automatically turn straight quotes (' ' " ") into smart quotes (‘ ’ “ ”, or as appropriate for my language)?

Description

Turns straight quotes into smart quotes when displaying a page. (You can adjust the style of smart quotes as appropriate for your language.)

Installation

Download smartquotes.phpΔ and place it in your cookbook directory. Then add such a line to config.php:

 include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/smartquotes.php");

Configuration

Prior to including smartquotes.php, set $SmartQuoteStyle as appropriate to your language, e.g.

 $SmartQuoteStyle = 'GB';

Options include: 'CH', 'DE', 'DK', 'ES', 'FI', 'FR', 'GB', 'NL', 'PL', 'SE'. (Default is 'GB'.)

Notes

The code for this recipe was extracted from MarkupExtensions. All credit goes to that recipe’s author/contributors; I just packaged it as a standalone recipe.

Alternative method

You can also use a Javascript-based solution:

1. Download smartquotes.js and place it in your pub/ directory.
2. Add the following to your config.php:

## Smartquotes.js
if ($action == 'browse') {
	$HTMLFooterFmt['smartquotes-js'] = "
<script src='$FarmPubDirUrl/smartquotes.js'></script>
<script>smartquotes().listen();</script>
";
}

Change log / Release notes

• 2018-01-08: Added JS-based method.
• 2017-12-30: Initial release.

Contributors

• jr (original MarkupExtensions recipe)
• Said Achmiz (extracted smart-quotes code from MarkupExtensions and packaged as a standalone recipe)

Comments

See discussion at SmartQuotes-Talk