NSTextView programmatically apply smart quotes?

FROM : Mark Munz
DATE : Tue Jun 03 21:53:16 2008

Is the smart quotes functionality only applied to typed in text (by
the user) or is there a way to apply it to text programmatically (as
in text pasted in or after a NSTextView contents are set)?

It appears to do some unique localized/contextual quote replacement
and I can't find any documentation how this done? I'd like to be able
to tap into this functionality under Leopard.

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