# Smart quotes special characters in transaction issue resolved

- Type: Defect correction
- Reference: PBI 257585
- Compliance Impacts: This defect is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
- Documentation: No document impact.

Summary: It was reported that special characters 0145, 0146, 0147, and 0148 resulted in errors on static documents. See the Expere log example below for more information.

Expere log example
‘ | Opening single smart quote | Alt 0145 | C1 | Error
’ | Closing single smart quote | Alt 0146 | C1 | Error
“ | Opening double smart quote | Alt 0147 | C1 | Error
” | Closing double smart quote | Alt 0148 | C1 | Error

Solution: Quotation marks are now converted appropriately (from smart quotes to regular quotes); as a result, static and dynamic documents do not produce an error when generating a .PDF document if smart quotes are present.

## Implementation Notes

This feature requires an Expere Engine update.