I'm setting up a reapeating region in a web page, and it contains a text field where free-form text will be entered, paragraph length.

The text entered in there will have em-dashes, double quotation marks, apostrophes, and maybe a few other things that need to be converted to HTML entities.

I understand that in repeating regions, the only text-area editor available is Nicedit. Nicedit is converting quotes and apostrophes character entities that result in straight quotes and apostrophes, but the rest of the site makes use of "smart," or "curly" (left- and right-facing) quotes and apostrophes. Also, Nicedit won't convert em-dashes at all, for example.

Is there some method I can set up that will somehow convert these special characters into the HTML entities that give me what we need?

I've looked around on the forum and can't find any earlier references to this issue.

[KK]

@couchclass, I suggest you please switch to v2.0 of Couch (details at viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10241).

Niceedit, despite all its very apparent shortcomings, was used primarily because repeatable regions could not support CKEditor (i.e. editable type 'richtext'),
That is no longer the case with v2.0 and now you can use 'richtext' just like the other regions in a repeatable fashion.

IMP: Please use the latest version available from GitHub for this feature -
https://github.com/CouchCMS/CouchCMS

Hope it helps.

That's great! Thank you for the tip, KK!