How do I disable "smart quotes", i.e. automatically substituting "these" with “these” ?

[Joni]

I wrote something like:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/idx/_settings'

and Confluence automatically changed it to:

curl -XPUT ‘http://localhost:9200/idx/_settings’

which completely breaks the curl command.

I would like to disable those smart quote substitutions. We're not using Confluence for typographic sugar, but for documenting programming code which in many cases make big difference with the little characters.

And no, having to *first* mark the code as Code (ctrl+shift+m) and only then starting to write/pasting code is an unwanted hindrance in the workflow.

[Milo Polte]

It's ridiculous that this can't be disabled universally on a wiki used by tons of tech companies.

Even this comment box doesn't automatically do "smart" quotes.

[christopher]

+1 for tearing out this ridiculous "feature".

[Danver Braganza]

Hey, who else is viewing this bug report this in 2024?

[Raymond Peck]

🙋🏻‍♂️

[Nicholas Barber]

Same here.  Our issue things being copied into json files from Confluence.

[Owen Gibbins]

It's astounding to see that this thread has been around for years and there's not a single comment from the developers on it. But I'm new around here and perhaps that's just the norm for this forum.

Anyway, another +1 for removing these intrusive modifications of my typing.

[DPKJ]

@Joni I did face same issue and started using ( `  i.e. back quote) before I pasted code, or whenever I wanted to add code.

[Joni]

Thank you, for that workaround. It's not the solution I'm looking for as I'd like software systems working FOR me, not AGAINST me. 🤨

[DPKJ]

I too become very unhappy when things like these occur.

[Rainer R]

It's also an insidious problem for JSON.  The odd quotes cause the JSON format checkers to fail your JSON, but not flag the quotes as the issue which can lead to a long and frustrating debug session. This makes it hard (forced to use inconvenient workarounds) to do our documentation in Confluence and allow users to cut and paste sample JSON.

Google docs has a setting.  It is possible, please fix it. 

[Scott Posey]

You can work around that using the "code snippet" under the "+" menu.

However, smart quotes still happen in code format from Bold/Italic/... menu, which I agree is not developer-friendly.

[Influential Eliot]

It should be an option either way.

1. I need what I type to be contextual, when I talk about a 'fieldName' I plant that in a single quote, when I talk about a "field value" then it is a double quote. This is (I think) a pretty universal thing, but even so, it is not uncommon.
2. When copying and pasting text to other programs (not for code, not everyone is a code head) then smart quotes are just ... woefully annoying. I turn them off in Outlook, too ... it shouldn't be a big deal here.

[Influential Eliot]

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