I am unable to turn off “smart quotes” (for the purpose of entering computer code). I have unchecked the box in System Preferences > Language > Keyboard, and in Safari and Mail under the Edit Menu > Substitutions (also in Word and TextEdit), but the smart or ”curly quotes“ continue to appear in each application. Is there any way to fix this in Mavericks? I am running OS X 10.9.3
slps01 wrote:
a TexEdit document written in Helvetica font with all of the smart quote settings unchecked. As you can see, the smart quotes still appear.
Is it really Hevetica? Your prefs say that Plain Text is supposed to be in Century 10.
Those quotes are not correct smart quotes, they are at the wrong ends of the phrase.
What happens if you turn off "correct spelling automatically" and "text replacement".
You were correct. It was something in my main user account. The problem disappeared when I set up a new user account, and it disappeared in the main user account when I trashed all of my startup items. Not sure which one was causing the problem.
Thanks again for all your help.
The question posed by this thread is actually how to turn smart quotes off when the fix you suggest does not work.
A better term for your second line is straight quotation mark. Prime marks are slanted like this: ″
drowningindata wrote:
My situation is a bit different t
Yes, and to get the best help with that you should repost your questiion in the forum for Pages:
TextWrangler is a much better programmer's text editor.
red_menace:
That's my problem: no matter how I set the preferences in the applications, the smart quotes won't go away.
I pulled out all of the Safari preferences from the Library but am still getting “smart quotes”.
How to Turn off Smart Quotes
