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Smart-Quote Fixer

Straighten curly quotes (“ ” ‘ ’ „ ‹ › « ») to plain " and ', or curl straight quotes into typographic ones (opening/closing chosen by position). Also fixes … ↔ three dots and — ↔ --. Mode is chosen from the input: curly present → straighten; otherwise → curl.

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How to use Smart-Quote Fixer

Curly ↔ straight quotes, … ↔ ..., — ↔ --; direction chosen from the input.

  1. Prepare your input

    Paste text containing curly or straight punctuation.

  2. Use the workspace

    Inspect the detected conversion direction.

  3. Check your result

    Review apostrophes, opening quotes, dashes and ellipses.

Know the limits

Quote direction is inferred from characters and position; it is not a language-aware editing pass.

Where does my input go?

This browser tool processes your input on your device. Optional analytics is a separate choice; it is not needed to use the tool. Keep your original until you have checked the result.

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