C# How to replace Microsoft's Smart Quotes with straight quotation marks?

Question

My post below asked what the curly quotation marks were and why my app wouldn\'t work with them, my question now is how can I replace them when my program comes across them,

Answer 1

just chiming in, I had done this with Regex replace just to handle a few at a time based on what I'm replacing them with:

        public static string ReplaceWordChars(this string text)
        {
            var s = text;
            // smart single quotes and apostrophe,  single low-9 quotation mark, single high-reversed-9 quotation mark, prime
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u2018\u2019\u201A\u201B\u2032]", "'");
            // smart double quotes, double prime
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u201C\u201D\u201E\u2033]", "\"");
            // ellipsis
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "\u2026", "...");
            // em dashes
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u2013\u2014]", "-");
            // horizontal bar
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "\u2015", "-");
            // double low line
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "\u2017", "-");
            // circumflex
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "\u02C6", "^");
            // open angle bracket
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "\u2039", "<");
            // close angle bracket
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "\u203A", ">");
            // weird tilde and nonblocking space
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u02DC\u00A0]", " ");
            // half
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u00BD]", "1/2");
            // quarter
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u00BC]", "1/4");
            // dot
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u2022]", "*");
            // degrees 
            s = Regex.Replace(s, "[\u00B0]", " degrees");

            return s;
        }

Also a few more replacements in there.