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How to disable smart quotes in Jira and Confluence

The problem

When you type a single or double quote in Atlassian Jira or Confluence wiki, it's automatically converted to a smart quote. As a detail-oriented software engineer, this disturbs me.

Examples

“double”
‘single’
I don’t like it

Even if you delete the quote and re-type it, it becomes smart again.

There is no option to disable smart quotes permanently.

But...

You can get rid of them

Type Ctrl-Z immediately after they appear.

It also works for the word don't: When you type apostrophe ' it looks normal, then when you type t, the apostrophe changes. Type Ctrl-Z and it reverts back to normal again.

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