Merge PR #7749: [doc] Disable smartquotes conversion

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/conf.py b/doc/sphinx/conf.py
index f65400e88..135c24aed 100755
--- a/doc/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/doc/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -201,9 +201,9 @@ html_static_path = ['_static']
 # The empty string is equivalent to '%b %d, %Y'.
 #html_last_updated_fmt = None
 
-# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
-# typographically correct entities.
-html_use_smartypants = False # FIXME wrap code in <code> tags, otherwise quotesget converted in there
+# FIXME: this could be re-enabled after ensuring that smart quotes are locally
+# disabled for all relevant directives
+smartquotes = False
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
 #html_sidebars = {}