# Disable smart quotes

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-smart-quotes/1382
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [5 July 2018 19:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-smart-quotes/1382 "2018-07-05T19:49:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [5 July 2018 19:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-smart-quotes/1382/1 "2018-07-05T19:49:00Z")

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Is it possible to configure Discourse so that it does not convert quotes to smart quotes? As far as I can see this feature has no benefit to us and wastes a lot of time when trying to import flows.

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### Author: ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [5 July 2018 20:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-smart-quotes/1382/2 "2018-07-05T20:38:16Z")

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Good suggestion - there is an option for this which I've now disabled. It does disable some other things though:

> Use typography rules to improve readability of text: replace straight quotes ' with curly quotes ’, (c) (tm) with symbols, -- with emdash –, etc

But, to be honest, I think the benefits of disabling smart quotes out weighs the other things.

Thanks!