As nice as wordpress is, it can sometimes turn your life into a bit of a nightmare. Case in point the title in my previous post. I was trying to tell WP that I want straight double quotes (ie: “) and it kept insisting on beautifying it and turning it into curly double quotes. These curly quotes have a different meaning in Unix, so if you’re using a “cut-and-paste” unix command in your post title you’re kinda out of luck. There is a process called wptexturize that turns simple everyday quotes/doublequotes into what they call smart quotes. Anyways, to work around this you can use the following tables HTML names instead of the actual character when you’re writing your post:
| Symbol | HTML Name | HTML Number | Description |
| “ | " | " | Double Quote |
| ‘ | ' | Single Quote | |
| ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | Left Single Quote |
| ’ | ’ | ’ | Right Single Quote |
| “ | “ | “ | Left Double Quote |
| ” | ” | ” | Right Double Quote |