# Smart Quotes in topics?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 27, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270 "2018-04-27T03:20:02Z")
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### Author: ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270/1 "2018-04-27T03:20:02Z")

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It seems that Discourse has started “automatically” converting “dumb” quotes into smart quotes in topic text (not just titles) (maybe in 1.9.5 or 1.9.6?).

My users have complained about this feature, but I don’t see any way to turn it off.

Is there a preference somewhere for it? I can’t see anything in my profile settings. In the site settings, I have the option:

 ![20180427-111907](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/f/3f53c0375c5d09516d0ba3dd8a44d6fbb7ea1f2b.png)

but that refers explicitly to “topic title”.

Is there a separate setting for content? Or does this setting now do more than it says?

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270/2 "2018-04-27T04:09:05Z")

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The site setting you want to disable is `enable markdown typographer`.

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### Author: ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270/3 "2018-04-27T05:59:35Z")

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Ahh. Thanks. Perhaps this setting should mention “quotes” or “smart” or some other word that people might search for…?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270/4 "2018-04-27T06:13:05Z")

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I believe @codinghorror had a similar issue yesterday and improved the copy

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-in-topics/86270/5 "2018-04-28T22:00:02Z")

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