Body: <p>I am proofreading a text, and I would like to change all occurrences of ' to the relevant character, ‘ or ’; ditto per " and double quotes. 
  The task cannot be automated, because there are apostrophes in the middle of the text, like in "I'm", and of course " is heavily used in the XHTML markup. At the moment I am using Sigil, but replacing every single character takes a bit of time because of the tidying involved. Do you know of any better way? </p>
  
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Comments.CreationDate: 2019-02-21T14:44:38.900Z
Comments.Text: btw, I had some partial results by changing first all occurrences of 's, n't, 've, 'll, and then using a regex changing '([^']*)' to ‘\1’
Comments.UserDisplayName: mau
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Title: Which is the quickest way to change apostrophes to quotation marks?
UserDisplayName: mau
ThreadText: # Which is the quickest way to change apostrophes to quotation marks?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-02-21)
  
  I am proofreading a text, and I would like to change all occurrences of ' to the relevant character, ‘ or ’; ditto per " and double quotes.
  The task cannot be automated, because there are apostrophes in the middle of the text, like in "I'm", and of course " is heavily used in the XHTML markup. At the moment I am using Sigil, but replacing every single character takes a bit of time because of the tidying involved. Do you know of any better way?
  
  **Tags:** sigil
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: btw, I had some partial results by changing first all occurrences of 's, n't, 've, 'll, and then using a regex changing '([^']*)' to ‘\1’  
  
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