Disable pandoc conversion of double quotes when outputting plain text

Question

Here is the markdown file test.md:

# Introduction
He said, "Hello!".

I want to convert this to text using pandoc suitable for displaying on the command-line. To do this I run pandoc -t plain test.md which results in

INTRODUCTION


He said, “Hello!â€.

What I want is for the double-quotes to be left as-is.

Answer 1

To turn off smart quotes use:

pandoc -f markdown-smart -t plain test.md

To display it in a terminal you might try something like:

pandoc -s -f markdown-smart -t man test.md | groff -T utf8 -man | less