Chinese Quote Converter

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Converts straight English quotation marks into proper Chinese curved quotes in text and markdown files.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Chinese Quote Converter skill

About this capability

Convert English straight quotation marks ("...") to Chinese curved quotation marks ("..." U+201C/D). Use when processing Chinese text documents, markdown files, or any content that needs proper Chinese typography with directional quotes. Triggers on keywords like "转换引号", "中文引号", "英文引号转中文", "quote co

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/chinese-quote-converter/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Convert English straight quotes to Chinese curved quotes:

  • "...""..." (U+201C / U+201D)
  • '...''...' (U+2018 / U+2019)

Usage

Run the conversion script:

# Preview conversion (output to stdout)
python3 scripts/convert_quotes.py <input_file>

# Save to new file
python3 scripts/convert_quotes.py <input_file> -o <output_file>

# Modify file in-place
python3 scripts/convert_quotes.py <input_file> --in-place

Features

  • Preserves code blocks (```, `, $$) by default
  • Handles nested quotes correctly
  • Detects English apostrophes (don't, it's) and leaves them unchanged
  • Use --no-preserve-code to also convert quotes inside code blocks

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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skill
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chinese-quote-converter
Source
github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills