How to convert curly quotes to “

Question

How to convert multibyte characters like curly quotes to their equivalent entity like “ using jquery or javascript?

var userTxt = '“testing”';

after converting userTxt should look like => “testing”

Out of interest, why would you want to do that? If you’re having display problems with characters like this, setting your `Content-Type` HTTP header to `text/html; charset=utf-8` (or an appropriate value if you’re using a different encoding than utf-8) should sort them out. — Paul D. Waite, Jul 31 '13 at 13:32
http://stackoverflow.com/a/784765/2220391 works http://jsfiddle.net/Spokey/8ftfS/ — Spokey, Jul 31 '13 at 13:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '13 at 13:27

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Here's how to do it:

$('<div/>').text('This is fun & stuff').html(); // evaluates to "This is fun &amp; stuff"

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Or you can do it this way.

answered Jul 31 '13 at 13:27

Kamil Szymański

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '13 at 13:36

try instead if you can use $quot instead of &#8220

var e_encoded = e.html().replace(/"/g, "&quot;");
console.log(e_encoded); // outputs &quot;&amp;

or you can use this function

function htmlEscape(str) {
    return String(str)
            .replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
            .replace(/"/g, '&quot;')
            .replace(/'/g, '&#39;')
            .replace(/</g, '&lt;')
            .replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '13 at 13:44

You can do this using regular expressions.

function replace_quotes( text ){
    return text.replace(/\u201C/g, "&#8220;").replace(/\u201D/g, "&#8221;");
}

This function replaces the quote characters by matching their unicode hex code.
See: Regex Tutorial - Unicode Characters

How to convert curly quotes to “

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