I made a plugin that does
// One can turn off smileys from the admin panels, but to keep WordPress out of our ASCII we must:
foreach(
array(
'bloginfo',
'comment_author',
'comment_text',
'link_description',
'link_name',
'link_notes',
'list_cats',
'single_post_title',
'term_description',
'term_name',
'the_content',
'the_excerpt',
'the_title',
'wp_title',
) as $filter ) {
remove_filter($filter, 'wptexturize');}
//However there are still a few places where WordPress goes behind our backs to still use wptexturize(),
//and PHP won't allow us to just redeclare function wptexturize($text){return $text;}
I hope it won't break anything. Jidanni 03:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)