Converting ″Straight Quotes″ to “Curly Quotes”

Question

I have an application which uses a Javascript-based rules engine. I need a way to convert regular straight quotes into curly (or smart) quotes. It’d be easy to just do a <

Answer 1

I didn't find the logic I wanted here, so here's what I ended up going with.

value = value.replace(/(^|\s)(")/g, "$1“"); // replace quotes that start a line or follow spaces
value = value.replace(/"/g, "”"); // replace rest of quotes with the back smart quote

I have a small textarea that I need to replace straight quotes with curly (smart) quotes. I'm just executing this logic on keyup. I tried to make it behave like Microsoft Word.