Evernote on Mac automagically and annoyingly replacing apostrophe with left single quote

[penumbra 0]

Hi,

 

In the past day or two, I've noticed Evernote is automatically replacing apostrophes (') with the left singleton (‘). While the distinction doesn't matter for notes and such, I keep SQL queries in evernote for later use and the singleton does not work. It is nearly imperceptible, so I haven't even figured out what triggers it.

 

The case is:

select 

   name, address, whatever

from table

where name like 'P%'

 

somehow becomes:

 

select 

   name, address, whatever

from table

where name like ‘P%'

 

Most fonts don't make this clear at a smaller size, so hard to say what is triggering this. I typically use Helvetica Neue, not sure if that's related.

 

 

I don't know when exactly this started, though I wonder if it was when I updated to the latest mac os, 10.9. 

 

If anyone has any suggestions how to make this come to an end, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks,

P.

 

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

Hi. It could be Mavericks.

System Preferences -> Language and Region -> Keyboard preferences -> Text -> Uncheck "use smart quotes"

[penumbra 0]

THANK YOU! 

 

A quick bit of searching shows I'm not the only one that got wiped out by Mavericks. I just assumed it was Steve Jobs ghost telling me to give up on SQL.

 

Thanks again.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

THANK YOU! 

 

A quick bit of searching shows I'm not the only one that got wiped out by Mavericks. I just assumed it was Steve Jobs ghost telling me to give up on SQL.

 

Thanks again.

Glad I could help. No paranormal activity to blame this time.

[Francisco Maia 0]

Thank you.

I was going nuts with this!

[apetrov 0]

@GrumpyMonkey you saved my day!

[Matt Cassarino 0]

Awesome!! Thank you.