Chris Shiflett shares with us today on his blog a way to convert the "smart quotes" that so many sites are using these days into something a little more programmer-friendly.

A question that seems to come up pretty frequently on various PHP mailing lists is how to convert "smart quotes" to real quotes. Dan Convissor provided a simple example that performs such a conversion a year or two ago on the NYPHP mailing list. I've modified it slightly to fit my own style preferences.

He also gives an array for those that might want to convert them for display in a browser (versus just showing the result quote)...