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Description:
Accepts a single string and converts any straight typewriter quotes into their corresponding curly typographer's quotes to give a better visual appearence. Note, however, that this code assumes that the text passed in is plain text and not HTML.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#MagicQuote("""It's working?""")#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Cleanly converts typewriter quotes to typographer's quotes.
 * 
 * @param txt      Text to format. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Keith Gaughan (kmgaughan@eircom.net) 
 * @version 1, May 1, 2006 
 */
function magicQuote(txt) {
    // Left quotes
    txt = REReplace(txt, "(^|[ " & Chr(9) & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & "'])""", "\1&##8220;", "ALL");
    txt = REReplace(txt, "(^|[ " & Chr(9) & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & "]|&##8220;)'",  "\1&##8216;", "ALL");

    // Right quotes
    txt = Replace(txt, """",        "&##8221;",  "ALL");
    txt = Replace(txt, "'&##8220;", "'&##8221;", "ALL");
    txt = Replace(txt, "'",         "&##8217;",  "ALL");

    return txt;
}