Paste text from Word, Google Docs or a PDF and the curly smart quotes become straight quotes, smart dashes become hyphens and the ellipsis character becomes three dots. Plain, code-safe text, cleaned in your browser.
The typographic quotes become the plain ASCII straight quote and apostrophe, which code, CSV and config files expect.
En dashes, em dashes and the minus sign become a simple hyphen, so text pasted from a document behaves in a terminal.
The single-character ellipsis becomes three dots, and non-breaking or zero-width spaces become normal spaces.
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Paste the text above and the curly quotes become straight quotes instantly. Copy the cleaned text, or export it as a profile for the Windows app to fix quotes on a hotkey.
Word and most editors turn on smart quotes, which automatically replace straight quotes with typographic curly ones as you type. They look nicer in print but break code and some data formats, so this tool converts them back.
Smart quotes, or curly quotes, are the typographic quotation marks that curve toward the text, as opposed to the straight ASCII marks. This tool replaces the curly ones with straight ones.
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