Converting Straight Quotes to Curly Quotes

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Published on 2010-02-04T20:09:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 4:33 UTC
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I have an application which uses a javascript based rules engine. I need a way to convert regular straight quotes into curl (or smart) quotes. It'd be easy to just do a string.replace for ["], only this will only insert one case of the curly quote.

The best way I could think of was replace the first occurrence of a quote with a left curly quote and every other one following with a left, and the rest right curly.

Is there a way to accomplish this using javascript?

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