WP converts characters – how to turn off?

If it’s only a few characters that do this, could you just input the ascii codes instead ?
(c)
(c)

I suppose that would work, but it’s a bit cumbersome. Is there no way to tell WP simply to take characters at face value?

May I suggest using the WP encoder to convert characters to codes?
WP intelligently converts boring text into well formatted text, and like any intelligent system, has it’s blind spots, I guess. This reminds of Microsoft word, which provides some unsolicited formatting help, ever so often.

Heck. Lets hope WP does not remind us of Word too often. ??

It might be a good idea to incorporate an “encode” button on the “Quicktags” panel.
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Why? That is the correct character for copyright, after all.

Try to read and edit long posts containing á é í ó ú à ? a with this characters converted to ASCII codes…

Well, gee, if it’s the correct code for copyright, I guess that must mean it’s also the correct code for any other reason one might have for typing the sequence “(c).” My readers will never know what Section 18-9-204.5(c) of the Colorado Revised Statutes says, but hey, at least they’ll know that Section 18-9-204.5 is copyrighted.

anon must have been confused, xrlq.

That’s wp-includes/vars.php :). This will disable the texturize engine for all posts.

When I type in a new post and include the characters, “It’s ” the blog shows “Ita€?s”
Is this a browser issue, or WP converting things?

Neither, I guess. It must have to do with the character encoding used by your weblog. UTF-8 will perhaps give you the most mileage, since a lot many characters can be represented using it.
WordPress converts the plain ‘ to a more curly ‘ which looks better. The curly ‘ is a different character from the plain jane ‘ and so it requires to be displayed properly. You can be assured it is not a browser problem, since most WordPress users use curly ‘ by default, thanks to WordPress.
You should probably choose a character encoding and specify it in the options page.

Hmmmm. I wrote the post in MS Word (perhaps a bad idea), then pasted into notepad, and then into WP post box.
When I re-type the entry by hand, everything works out fine.
Does anyone else use a different editor, then paste into WP?

You can use some text editor that does not do any styling and saves the data as pure ascii.
I often use notepad, or even wordpad, if that’s what you are looking for.

just search and replace word’s curly quotes ’ to ‘