## Foreign Language Smart Quotes Change to English Smart Quotes

Q108862

The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
- Microsoft Windows 3.1

## SYMPTOMS

When you paste text from one localized version of Word for Windows to another same-language localized application (such as Microsoft Publisher) that pastes rich-text format (RTF) from the Windows Clipboard, all the localized smart quotes change to English smart quotes.
The same thing happens if you open an RTF file from one localized version of an application in another same-language localized application. For example, if you open a document you created in the French localized version of Word in the French localized version of Publisher, all the French smart quotes change to English smart quotes.
This does not happen if you paste text from one localized version of Word to an application that is localized for a different language. Similarly, it does not happen if you open an RTF file from one localized version of Word in an application that is localized for a different language.

## CAUSE

The RTF Specification states that smart quotation marks (ldblquote and lrdbquote, respectively) must convert to ANSI characters 0147 and 0148, which are the English-language smart quote characters.

## STATUS

We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 6.0 conv wrong character changed word6 winword replaces replaced smartquotes quotation marks

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