Smart Quotes Cleaner (Convert to ASCII)
Replace curly quotes, em dashes, and ellipses from Word or web editors with plain ASCII characters
Word processors, CMS editors, and ebooks love to sneak in typographic characters — curly quotes (“, ”, ‘, ’), en and em dashes (–, —), and ellipses (…) — that break parsers and corrupt data. This tool swaps them for the plain ASCII equivalents (", ', -, ...) that are safe to drop into code, config files, and databases.
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How to use
- Paste the text you want to clean into the editor.
- Watch the ASCII-safe output and the replacement count update live.
- Click copy to grab the finished text.
FAQ
- Why do curly quotes cause problems in code or data migrations?
- Unlike a straight quote ("), a curly quote (“ or ”) is a completely different Unicode character. Many text parsers and programming languages won't recognize it, so it throws syntax errors or shows up as mojibake once the data is moved.
- Does it clean up special characters other than quotation marks?
- Yes — besides smart quotes, it also detects word-processor-style Unicode characters like en/em dashes (–, —) and ellipsis (…), converting them to a standard hyphen (-) and three periods (...).
- Does it clean up special characters other than quotation marks?
- Yes — besides smart quotes, it also detects word-processor-style Unicode characters like en/em dashes (–, —) and ellipsis (…), converting them to a standard hyphen (-) and three periods (...).