Normalize typographic quotation marks or apply a smart-quote treatment to ordinary text. Follow the exact input and settings below to reproduce this example. Open Replace Smart Quotes.
Prepare the source text
Open Replace Smart Quotes and choose Write or paste text, or upload a supported UTF-8 text file. The upload opens the editor; it does not run the tool. This example uses the exact source shown in the comparison.
Maximum input and result: 1 MB of UTF-8 text, with a 1,048,576-character input ceiling. Expanding transformations must also fit the result limit.
Use the exact example input
“Hello,” she said. It’s ready.
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Choose the settings
For the recorded example, use these settings: Quote style: Straight quotes.
Straight mode converts supported curly single and double quotation marks to their plain equivalents. Smart mode uses surrounding characters to choose opening or closing curly forms and converts a double hyphen to an em dash. Inspect apostrophes, measurements and quoted text afterward.
The example in this guide
Verified in the i2TEXT browser workflow on November 11, 2026.
- Input
- example.txt
- Output
- replace-smart-quotes.txt
- Saved result
- 30 bytes
Apply and inspect the result
Select Replace Smart Quotes when the input and settings are ready. In the saved example, the result begins: ""Hello," she said. It's ready.".
Smart mode uses character-based heuristics, not language-aware typography. Straight quotes are usually safer for code, configuration and identifiers.
Save the version you reviewed
Review the current result, then use Download text to save a TXT file. The actual download in this example is named replace-smart-quotes.txt. Copy and download use the current result, so make any final wording changes before saving. Continue to can carry the result into a compatible next tool, where you review it before running another operation.
example.txtreplace-smart-quotes.txt
Common questions
Which settings produced this example?
Quote style: Straight quotes.
What should I check before using the result?
Smart mode uses character-based heuristics, not language-aware typography. Straight quotes are usually safer for code, configuration and identifiers.
Where is this text processed?
This text operation runs in your browser; its source and result are not sent for conversion. A draft may be kept in this browser tab when session storage is available. Clear removes the current draft; download important work before closing the tab.
Try Replace Smart Quotes with your own text.
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