In Matlab, a string is something with apostrophe around it:
x='this is string' Using ' character (the thing below " on standard keyboard). When I compile this, even inside verbatim, the HTML comes out looking like x=’this is string’ This is a problem. Since now when I copy the above from the HTML page to Matlab, it gives error. Since now it is no longer a string. The problem seems to be that ' has unicode ’ but this is also the same code for Right Single Quotation Mark? So why does it appear as ’ on the web page, when inside the plain text file it appears as ' ? And what should one do to keep ' showing as ' in HTML? Here is MWE ------------------------------------------ \documentclass[11pt]{article} \begin{document} Why make4ht changes ' to Right Single Quotation Mark \verb’|? It also does it in \verb|'| and verbatim: \begin{verbatim} x='this is string' \end{verbatim} \end{document} --------------------- Compiled using make4ht foo.tex This is what the HTML looks like -------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> .... x=’this is string’ -------------- Even when I compile using make4ht -u foo.tex The problem is still there ----------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> </p> <div class="verbatim" id="verbatim-1"> x=’this is string’ </div> ----------------- What do I need to do to keep apostrophe as apostrophe in the HTML? Using tex4ht 2017 on Linux. Thanks --Nasser