We're looking into this.

Screenshot link: http://solerablog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/curly-apostrophes-break-promo-linkedin.png

blockquote {
  background: #EEE;
  border-left: 10px solid #36BCAB;
}

To change the background color to white, add this to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page:

blockquote {
  background: white;
}

http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

There's something called a <pre> tag. It's not pretty, but it works.

<a href="http://www.eat.fi">this link</a>

I got:

<a href=”http://www.eat.fi”>this link</a>

Close, but still curly quotes. Is " not the right term?

I also tried uploading a text file to my blog as you asked, but it wouldn't let me because the file "did not meet security guidelines"... <<sighh>>

Ok, so you said it in fewer words (and code...) ;)

Change the leading '<' marks to &lt;

'& lt;a href="http://test.com"& gt;test url& lt;/a& gt;'

It looks a bit messy, but should work. I hope this displays properly!

HTH

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Edit: It didn't. You'll need to take the spaces out of the html codes for them to work.

<a href="http://www.something.fi">this link</a>

to keep things as they are, but it doesn't work on a blog. Any ideas?

That will give you &quot