Thread: Converting UK punctuation to US
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Old 03-20-2015, 08:04 AM   #2
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Trying to find a tool or utility to convert files from UK punctuation to US (single quote for dialog to double quote for example). Any help would be appreciated.
Both Sigil and Calibre Editor support Regular Expressions, which allow you to search for text enclosed by single or double quotes.

For example, you could use the following very simple expressions in Sigil and Calibre to replace single quotes with double quotes.

Find:‘(.*?)’
Replace:“\1”

(Make sure to select Regex from the Mode dropdown box.)

Note that you'll probably also have to convert British spellings to American spellings using VarCon or a similar tool.
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