When I wish to copy and paste something into the apostrophic era Elba (and I am thinking clearly), I paste it first into Word or Wordpad or Notepad.
I then do a search and replace (ctrl+h) for apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and m-dashes (the longer dashes). There may be others that we should do this for, too, but I don't know off hand what they would be.
This gets around the bulk of the problems.