Replace curly quotes with straight, em-dashes with ---, ellipsis with ..., and strip non-breaking spaces.
Free Markdown Smart Quote Fixer replaces typographic characters with their ASCII equivalents. Curly quotes become straight, em-dashes become triple hyphens, ellipsis becomes three dots, and special spaces are normalized. Code blocks are never touched.
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Pasting from Word or Google Docs smuggles in invisible typographic characters that break Markdown rendering. Fixing them shouldn't cost a cent. The tool runs in your browser.
| Input | Output | Typical size | Speed | Login needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markdown (.md) | ASCII-safe Markdown | Any document size | < 10 ms | No |
Here's what this free tool does in detail — every feature is built to solve real problems, runs entirely in your browser, and is free forever.
Smart quotes (“ ” ‘ ’), guillemets (« »), and other curly variants are all replaced with standard straight quotes (" and '). This ensures consistent rendering across every Markdown parser and editor.
For full formatting cleanup, see the Markdown Formatter.
Em dashes (—) become ---, en dashes (–) become --, and figure dashes become single hyphens. This matches the ASCII conventions most Markdown style guides expect.
The Unicode ellipsis character (…) is replaced with three dots. Non-breaking spaces, em/en/thin spaces, zero-width spaces, BOM bytes, and typographic bullets are all normalized to their ASCII equivalents.
For deeper whitespace normalization, try the Whitespace Normalizer.
Content inside triple-backtick fenced blocks and inline code spans is never modified. If your Markdown quotes code that intentionally uses Unicode characters, those stay exactly as written.
Paste Markdown with typographic characters into the input, or click Load example.
All four categories are on by default. Disable any you want to preserve.
Click Copy fixed Markdown and paste back into your editor.
Word inserts curly quotes and em-dashes. Fix them all in one pass before committing.
Google Docs uses smart typography. Clean it before publishing to a Markdown-based CMS.
Different languages use different quote styles. Normalize to ASCII for consistent Markdown.
Contributors paste from rich-text editors. Clean typographic characters before merging.
Ensure all quotes and dashes are ASCII-standard before publishing docs.
Yes. Free forever, no account required.
Curly quotes, em/en dashes, ellipsis, non-breaking spaces, zero-width spaces, and typographic bullets.
No. Fenced code blocks and inline code spans are never modified.
Many Markdown parsers render curly quotes incorrectly. Straight quotes work everywhere.
They are replaced with regular spaces. Same for em spaces, en spaces, and thin spaces.
No. Runs 100% in your browser.