http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3356831/posts?page=46#46
Just the curly ones. Seriously. Straight quotes should cut and paste fine. Something went haywire after our last systems software upgrade and apparently fouled up the ms-smart character routine.
Hoping John solves the problem soon.
46 posted on 11/5/2015, 2:26:53 PM by Jim Robinson
It’s all the typesetting characters, and only if you copy and paste from another source that is most likely using a web font instead of one of the basic 5 fonts. If you type directly into the editor, you don’t have the curly quotes issue.
Your post made me do a little research.
Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes
When I post HTML to a blog, I find that smart quotes don’t show up correctly, so this tool replaces smart quotes (and a few other entities) with regular quotes (or the regular entity). To use, paste the text containing the smart quotes in the top box, then hit convert and the converted text will appear in the lower box.
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
Somebody try it out.