CS5: Pasting smart quotes into code view problem

Hi all,
In my blogging workflow, I copy the blog text from from MacJournal into the code view in Dreamweaver CS5. In CS3, it seems that DW allowed the left & right smart and unicode quotes to be pasted in untouched. However, DW CS5 seems to be converting all single ‘ & ’ to the ASCII ' and all “ & ” to ASCII ". Is there a way to turn this off?
I don't want to paste the text into the design view because I don't want DW to auto format the text. I got some specific formatting that I like to do.
Thanks!
Steven

Yes, the appropriate meta tag is in place. In Preferences, UTF-8 is selected under Fonts. Try pasting:
“Test”
into the code view and see what happens. Hmm, Just tried pasting the above into the Design View and the same thing happened. The curly quotes where changed into straight quotes. BTW, I'm runn ing DW under Mac OS X Lion.
I pasted the same text in another app, TextEdit, and the curly quotes pasted just fine.
I need the curly quotes because I change them into ‘, ’, “, and ” (‘ ’ “ ”) for compatibility with older browsers (pre-IE6). Yes, my site has been visited by such older browsers.
Thanks!
Steven

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> Hello, I have been using DW for a while now. I only use
code view. When I
> first
> installed DW it asked for a default layout which I
assumed had nothing to
> do
> with the viewing of code vrs design, just the layout. I
chose coder
> layout.
>
> Now I am in DW and I need to look at the design in real
time because I am
> having an issue that is causing me to go back and forth
between browser
> and DW
> and it is getting old. So I looked up at the top where
the toolbar is and
> design and split buttons are greyed out and inactive for
me. I thought
> this was
> odd so I created a new basic HTML page to see if it
would allow me access
> to
> these buttons but again, no.
>
> If I go to view menu same thing. I can only check code
view. I can however
> go
> to the window menu and change the layout to designer,
dual or coder but
> all
> this does is undock many of the panels. I still cannot
see the visual
> element
> of my code.
>
> Can anyone please help me with this problem? At its most
simplest form, I
> created an HTML page that says Hello World and I would
like to be able to
> see
> this in both code and design view or switch easily
between the two. But as
> of
> now, it does not seem like I have this ability. Again I
am using DW 8
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