@Quasirandom
I just posted a story using the tag, and it converted from smart quotes to straight ones anyway.
Did I misunderstand the functionality?
I manually checked the html that you uploaded. It was malformed. It had xml declaration and the encoding declaration was UTF-8.
However, the file was actually encoded Windows-1252.
how did you create the file? did you edit the html/xml file directly using something like notepad?
The submission wizard's HTML-to-TXT converter automatically fixed the mis-encoding while converting it to text by straightening the quotes and replacing most mis-encoded characters.
When vixen processed it, she couldn't know these things.
I downloaded the original file you uploaded and inspected it. When I removed the xml declarations and fixed the encoding manually, then the curly quotes showed.
If you're going to directly edit the html file, you should use a more sophisticated editor that understands different characters encodings.
As a site that receives text in various formats, from various platforms, from different people that do things differently, we get a lot of fringe cases like this one. Over the years I have refined the process to deal with most mishaps.
Had you not used the {psc} tag, the process would have curled the quotes again all would have looked normal to you.
I've already reprocessed the file and your original quotes are now on the site instead of the straightened ones.