Title: Apostrophe Catastrophe
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Apostrophe Catastrophe

 *  snee7
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/)
 * I just successfully installed wordpress and am now working on getting the template
   set up. I’m having one problem, however. I used the same exact CSS coding on 
   all of my pages, but for some reason, on my WordPress pages, the apostrophes 
   look strangely like commas. This doesn’t happen on any of the other pages I have,
   with the same coding, and I’m sure that I’m using the same font and CSS.. Any
   suggestions as to the root of this odd problem? Is it just a wordpress thing 
   or am I just going insane?

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 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-23832)
 * Oh, and it also does something odd when I use the three consecutive dot… thingie…
   yeah… these… that… are… after… each… word… And another thing, is there a way 
   to make the br tags less wide? It seems like they’re huge to me. Those two are
   another two things that aren’t due to my CSS. Just wondering if anyone knew about
   that either.
 *  [lane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lane/)
 * (@lane)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-23833)
 * See: [ What is Texturize ( wordpress.org/support/4/64 )](http://wordpress.org/support/4/64)
 *  [Michael Heilemann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael/)
 * (@michael)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-23846)
 * Texturize is your friend. Love Texturize.
 *  [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/)
 * (@rubyji)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-24303)
 * I don’t get why I should love texturize. I hate curly quotes! What’s the easiest
   way to disable it?
 *  [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-24304)
 * **rubyji**: I made a mini-plugin, [wpuntexturize](http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/27/plugin-wpuntexturize/)
   that turns off automatic curly-quoting (but DOESN’T turn off wptexturize completely).
   If you want wptexturize off completely, try the mini-plugin I mentioned [here](http://wordpress.org/support/4/11723#post-2),
   though you probably want to remove the `remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');`
   line mentioned in it.
 *  [Ozh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ozh/)
 * (@ozh)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-24305)
 * I’m not too happy neither with wptexturize, especially as I paste a lot of code
   in my blog and it fux0res it up (curly quotes in particular)
    I think I’m going
   to tweak it so that it only applies when I want to.

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 * 6 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ozh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ozh/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-24305)
 * Status: not resolved

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