inch symbol glyph changed to a closing quotation mark when pasting text into new document

[brettmyhre]

I have a very large document of text that currently has an inch symbol glyph in place next to numbers. When I copy and paste the text into a new document the inch symbol glyph changes to a closing quotation mark. The only way I can get the inch symbol to transfer over is by copying the actuall text box over to the new document. Is there some setting I need to adjust to keep the inch symbol glyph from being replaced? Thanks.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Make sure Use Typographer’s Quotes in Type Preferences is unchecked when the document you are pasting into is the active document.

[brettmyhre]

Thank you very much. That looks to be the answer!

[Jongware]

You can also check if your font (or a close substitute) contains an actual inch symbol, and use that instead.

It's more typographically and semantically correct, so that's my personal preferencee. The 'straight single quote' is a workaround dating from typewriters.