Curly “smart” quotes break code, JSON, CSVs and configs. Paste your text and convert every curly quote to a straight ASCII quote — with an x-ray showing each one first.
🔒 100% private — your text never leaves this browser tabWord processors, chat apps and AI assistants automatically replace the straight quotes you type (" and ') with typographic curly ones (“ ” ‘ ’). That's correct for print — and fatal for code. JSON, YAML, shell commands, SQL and most programming languages only accept the straight ASCII characters, so a pasted curly quote produces parse errors that are maddening to spot because the characters look almost identical.
All four curly quote characters, low and reversed quote variants, primes and double primes — every one becomes its plain ASCII equivalent. The x-ray view highlights each smart quote before you convert, and the diff view shows every replacement after. TextWash also removes the invisible characters (zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces) that typically travel with pasted text and break code the same way.
Turn on Pretty mode and TextWash does the reverse: it keeps typographic quotes and upgrades any straight ones so the whole document is consistent — useful for publishing rather than programming.
Parsers expect the ASCII quote characters (U+0022 and U+0027). Curly quotes are entirely different code points (U+201C–U+201F, U+2018–U+201B) that merely look similar, so the parser sees an invalid token.
By default it also fixes em dashes, real ellipsis characters and hidden Unicode characters — each toggleable. Every change is shown character by character in the diff view.
No. The conversion is plain JavaScript running in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.