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Curly quotes not available

Hi,


I’m on an iPad v12.1 using Pages v4.3. I’m trying to get curly quotes, both to replace existing straight quotes and also to be the default. Neither is happening.


The default automatic changing of straight quotes into curly quotes does not occur when I’m typing in Pages, as it should according to Help.


I’ve tried going into Settings (on my iPad) > General > Keyboard > Smart punctuation. It is on.


I’ve tried changing all my straight quotes with curly quotes using Find and Replace, but I don’t even have curly quotes available on the iPad, only straight ones (double and single).


Does anyone know how to fix this?


thanks,

Andrew

Posted on Dec 21, 2018 4:07 AM

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Have you tried changing fonts? Both the smart punctuation setting and choices from the popup menu when doing press/hold on the ' and " keys produce curly quotes without any problem in newly composed Pages text on my ipad.

Posted on Dec 22, 2018 6:37 AM

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Dec 22, 2018 9:47 AM in response to Skydiver119

I remember years ago having to take out all the curly quotes and setting my Word to do straight quotes only because the coding for curly quotes would mess up on certain websites.

Luckily these days the people who make web sites have gotten smarter and almost always include the html tags that tell browsers what character encoding they should use, so curly punctuation is no longer a problem. I think it can still cause issues with some sms message systems however.


Dec 22, 2018 10:57 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Well,

Since all my current iDevices are STILL running iOS 10.3.3, there would be no way for me to know this.

I have access to curly quotes and apostrophes through a third party, virtual custom keyboard app, called PadKeys.


PadKeys - Number Row Keyboard by Natural Designs Software, Inc.


‎PadKeys - Number Row Keyboard on the App Store


Been using PadKeys for over 3 years, now!


https://padkeyskeyboard.com


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