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Smart punctuation converter.

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This extension converts some plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” punctuation HTML entities:

Convert straight quotes (' and ") into ‘curly’ quote HTML entities.
Convert dashes (-- and ---) into ‘en-dash’ and ‘em-dash’ HTML entities.
Convert three consecutive dots (...) into an ‘ellipsis’ HTML entities.
Convert x between numbers into a ‘times’ HTML entities.

This extension will not modify characters within <pre>, <code>, <kbd>, <script>, <style> and <textarea> elements because these elements are commonly used to display text where smart quotes and other “smart punctuation” would not be appropriate, such as in source code or example markup.

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He said, "Some text with \'escaped quotes\'... Hey, what's your name?"

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He said, “Some text with 'escaped quotes'… Hey, what’s your name?”