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Some Windows 10 modern UI apps (at least Mail and Calendar) have adopted the bad habit of MS office to replace simple quotes with "pretty" quotes during input.

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In office you can disable it in the options, but I looked through all Windows 10 settings (and the old control panel as well), but I can't find it.

Is there any way to disable this behaviour? I have the feeling that this behaviour only affects multiline text boxes in modern UI apps.

Note: It is quite possible that this behaviour is specific to the german input language.

Gerald Schneider
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  • In this case it's the Windows Mail app, as well as the calendar app. There are no options to turn it off. I have the impression that it's a feature of the text input field in modern UI apps. – Gerald Schneider Jan 20 '20 at 18:37
  • Have you tried these - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12445325/how-to-disable-auto-pairing-of-quotes – Madhubala Jan 20 '20 at 18:56
  • Thanks for the suggestion @user52599, but this is related only to the US input language. I have only the german input language. I already looked through the language related options. – Gerald Schneider Jan 20 '20 at 18:58
  • Try turning off spellcheck in Mail: https://superuser.com/questions/1137145/how-to-disable-autocorrect-in-windows-10-mail – DrMoishe Pippik Jan 20 '20 at 22:28
  • You may have turned it on accidently - `Ctrl + Shift + ' (apostrophe) Activate smart quotes` and do it again to turn off. This is standard behaviour of Windows' RichEdit control (used by wordpad compared to notepad's edit control). – Mark Jan 21 '20 at 02:32
  • @Mark that doesn't make any difference. The behaviour doesn't occur in WordPad, only in modern UI apps. – Gerald Schneider Jan 21 '20 at 07:08

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It's not ideal, but you can hit ctrl-z just after Mail has replaced the standard quote with a smart one.

Steve Hurcombe
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