Ideas for converting straight quotes to curly quotes

Question

I have a file that contains \"straight\" (normal, ASCII) quotes, and I\'m trying to convert them to real quotation mark glyphs (“curly” quotes, U+2018 to U+201D). Since the tran

Answer 1

I hate to say it, but the best course of action might be to study what Word does, and copy it. Even if it's wrong in some cases, it represents a standard that many people have become accustomed to. One behavior to emulate is having undo (Ctrl-Z) immediately revert to the straight quote after you have substituted a curved one.