“If you cannot type it on a standard english keyboard you should never use it in code unless it’s for string localization.” Here’s your first hint: there’s no “smart quotes” button by default on your keyboard. Smart quotes, when used in coding / development / programming, are typically perceived as different characters from standard quotes and apostrophes. While it made marketers’ documents marginally better-looking, it SNAFUed everything developers, coders, and programmers try to do. For code: the code will do anything but what you intended it to do.Īround 5 years ago, Google introduced the “smart quotes” feature.For Links: if you don’t remove those italicized quotes and apostrophes, then any links or code you tried to include in your article, when published in WordPress, links back to the website.įor example, if you try to link from your article to, it will go to.Why? Because if you’re running default settings, then in order to use any type of code in your post when writing in Google Docs, you need to find and replace all the quotes and apostrophes in a separate text editor in order to remove the italicized quotes. I should have looked that up 5 years ago.īlogging using Google Docs can be a pain in the ass. Another member posted the pick and the path: Opened Google Docs > Menu Bar > Tools > Preferences… > uncheck the damned box. Where I first found the answer: I found the answer on.
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