RH adding characters after opening quotation marks

Robohelp HTML V7
I have just discovered that throughout my help project, RH has added characters after the occurrence of either single or double quotation marks.
So what should read as "values" reads as "r;values" in the editor and as &rvalues" in the compiled file.
In the editor, it also flips the opening set of quotation marks so they are facing the same way as the closing ones.
This is an especially big problem as a lot of the help content contains examples of logical expressions where these characters look as though they belong and will confuse the heck out of the user.
I should be able to remove them using find and replace but how do I stop it happening again?
I have tried adding quotation marks, then closing and re-opening the project and also compiling it but I can't seem to make it happen intentionally.
Thanks

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