A non-typewriter quote or apostrophe

The exact curly quote can be replaced mechanically. Lines containing unsupported markup are excluded so the fixer never rewrites uncertain markup.

Conventions: Quotes mark titles, speech, and mentions, Nordic lyrics quote with guillemets.

What this check detects

Curly quotation marks, guillemets, low and reversed quotes, and the typewriter mark each becomes. A closing curly single quote between two letters is named as an apostrophe rather than as the closing half of a pair, which is most of what this rule points at in real lyrics. LyricLint also checks spacing acute accents beside words as possible apostrophe typos, with a previewed replacement. Actual accented letters are unchanged. In a Nordic language the double marks run the other way: every double quote, the straight one included, becomes « or ».

• ‘ → becomes '

  Automatic fix

  The opening curly single quote.

• ’ → becomes '

  Automatic fix

  The closing curly single quote.

• ‚ → becomes '

  Automatic fix

  The low single quote.

• ‛ → becomes '

  Automatic fix

  The reversed single quote.

• ‹ → becomes '

  Automatic fix

  The opening single guillemet.

• › → becomes '

  Automatic fix

  The closing single guillemet.

• “ → becomes "

  Automatic fix

  The opening curly double quote.

• ” → becomes "

  Automatic fix

  The closing curly double quote.

• „ → becomes "

  Automatic fix

  The low double quote.

• ‟ → becomes "

  Automatic fix

  The reversed double quote.

• « → becomes "

  Automatic fix

  The opening double guillemet.

• » → becomes "

  Automatic fix

  The closing double guillemet.

• '

  Also catches ´ · Previewed fix

  Immediately beside a letter, including its combining marks.

  The acute accent.

“Also catches” is LyricLint's own work rather than reviewed guidance: curated transcription mistakes, and, where an entry says so, any one-character typo of the preferred form. The reviewed guideline names the forms before the arrow and does not name these, and a typo caught this way is always previewed rather than fixed in one press.

Example

[Verse]
“Hello”

In the workbench this reads: Use a straight " instead of the opening curly double quote.

[Verse]
"Hello"

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Replace with ". The fix is classified as safe, so pressing it applies the edit directly: one press, one undo step.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Source

The source cited by this check:

Typewriter quotes (opens in a new tab) verified 2026-08-12 Use straight apostrophes and quotation marks