Frequently Asked Questions
Does this preserve line breaks?
Yes. Most operations work line-by-line and keep newline structure.
What does slugify do?
It converts text to URL-safe lowercase words separated by hyphens.
Is text processing private?
Yes. All transformations run in your browser only.
Example input/output
Input: He said “Hello” and it’s great
Output: He said "Hello" and it's great
How it works
This tool replaces Unicode curly quote characters (U+2018, U+2019, U+201C, U+201D) and em/en dashes with their ASCII equivalents using string replacement. Processing runs in your browser.
Common use cases
- Convert straight quotes to typographic curly quotes for publishing-quality text
- Remove smart quotes from text that causes encoding issues in plain-text systems
- Swap curly quotes back to straight for code or data use