# Smart (curly) quotes in titles?

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/smart-curly-quotes-in-titles/4759>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/smart-curly-quotes-in-titles/4759 "2020-07-24T14:30:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![benoliver999](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/benoliver999/32/2605_2.png) [@benoliver999](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/benoliver999)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/smart-curly-quotes-in-titles/4759/1 "2020-07-24T14:30:30Z")

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Kramdown seems to do a good job of converting straight `'` apostrophes to curly ones `’` (same goes with double quotes etc) - however it doesn’t seem to happen in titles.

Is this is technical limitation with kramdown? Do I just need to actually type out the curly quote in Front Matter?

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**Author:** ![chuckhoupt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/chuckhoupt/32/523_2.png) [@chuckhoupt](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/chuckhoupt)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/smart-curly-quotes-in-titles/4759/2 "2020-07-24T15:02:25Z")

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This is a limitation of most themes. The layouts in most themes just include a site or page’s title without markdown-to-html conversion, so the title is rendered as-is from the YAML config/front-matter.

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**Author:** ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/smart-curly-quotes-in-titles/4759/3 "2020-07-24T18:31:58Z")

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As per Jekyll’s documentation: [https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/filters/](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/filters/)

**Smartify**

Convert “quotes” into “smart quotes.” `{{ page.title | smartify }}`