Surround with characters to a text selection and paste in place

[macrolide]

In wikitext, a string can be made bold by surrounding a string with two single quotes.

For example, ''This is Bold Text''

In a macro I was trying to achieve that, but the single quotes get converted into something else.

How can I surround 2 single quotes to a selected text using a macro?

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What I tried in Keyboard Maestro (Troublesome characters keyboard Maestro inserted highlighted in Red)

[DanThomas]

Try pasting them in. In fact, try pasting the entire string in.

Also, in System Preferences:

[macrolide]

Thanks for the reply.
Pasting those characters was the easiest solution.
Didn’t know about that option in System Prefs.

Experimented with %27% to paste the unicode character and it worked too.

[DanThomas]

You're welcome. There's another topic where we've been discussing this issue, if you're interested:

Text fields in KM macros use smart quotes?

Not useless. It (my macro) seems to work fine in Keyboard Maestro 7.1.1 (7.1.1) on OSX 10.10.5, but for some reason sometimes fails under 10.11.4. But the real solution is to either remove “Smart Copy/Paste” from the KM Editor menu/features, or at least provide a KM Pref to always turn it off. I have found many apps that do one or the other.