Hi,

Unchecking "Use typographer's quotes" works for *new* files. But every
time I save them as .c, curly quotes show up again. Do you have this
kind of problem? How to address it?

On Sep 27, 10:57 pm, Semper Fidelis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unchecking "Use typographer's quotes" works for me and makes all my *new* 
> files start with straight quotes. That establishes straight quotes as the 
> default condition for any new files I make.
>
> But perhaps you inherited some files that already have curly quotes in them. 
> If you open those files, then the simple fix to get everything back to plain 
> text is to use "Text" -> "Convert to ASCII" from BBEdit's main menu. That 
> will make all the characters in your file conform to the lower decimal 128 
> ASCII values. The next time you open those files, you will get straight 
> quotes for any new quoted text you type.
>
> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>
> <snip>..</snip>
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Liu wrote:
>
> > I'm using BBEdit 9.5.1 to write some C code. But every time I type
> > quote, it shows curly quotes (“ ”), instead of straight ones ("). And
> > during compilation, these quotes are not recognized by compiler. Now
> > every time I have to manually convert them by "Straighten Quotes"
> > under "Text" Option, which is very annoying. I've tried to disable
> > "Use typographer's quotes" under "Editor defaults", but it does not
> > work. Can anyone tell me how to make quotes straight by default?
> > Thanks very much.
>
> <snip>..</snip>

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