convert quotation marks into HTML codes in large text

Question

I am creating an application in HTML, CSS, Jquery Mobile, that will be having a big text. To get that text, I have to copy it from another resource and in my text editor they look fine. (They are like "This is double quotes",'This is single quotes'). But in the browser the quotation marks become something like â€™ and because the text is so big, I can't go changing each mark with ".

So how can I convert those quotation marks in such big text into HTML Codes that will look how they are supposed to look in the browser?

I think you've got some codepage issues. If so, you need to fix this issue, not display one. — Vlad DX, Jul 11 '15 at 16:05
Sounds like an encoding issue. Have you tried adding ` ` to the page? — Felix Kling, Jul 11 '15 at 16:34
Please don't edit your question to ask a different one. [Ask a new one](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask) instead. — Oriol, Jul 11 '15 at 17:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '15 at 16:31

First, find all quotations marks that can appear in your text. Than, foreach quotation marks, for example single quote ', replace it with \':

var initialText = document.getElementById("text").innerHTML; 
var finalText = str.replace(initialText, "\'");
finalText = str.replace(finalText, '\"');

Finally use variable "finalText". Notice that first you replace variable "initialText", after first iteration you replace variable "finalText"

convert quotation marks into HTML codes in large text

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