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Q&A Why am I getting a strange double quote (“) in Open Office instead of the ordinary one (")?

In English, the “ordinary” quotes are the “upper 66” quotes for opening and the “upper 99” quotes for ending a quotation. In other languages, it's often “lower 66” for opening quotes, or «quotation...

posted 5y ago by gnasher729‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:08:01Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar gnasher729‭ · 2019-12-08T12:08:01Z (almost 5 years ago)
In English, the “ordinary” quotes are the “upper 66” quotes for opening and the “upper 99” quotes for ending a quotation. In other languages, it's often “lower 66” for opening quotes, or «quotation marks» or »quotation marks« (French and German). The straight quotes are not correct in any language I know of; they have been invented for programmers. (They are called 66 and 99 quotes because that's what they look like really magnified).

PS. The question was: "Why am I getting a strange double quote". That is answered: You are getting what you believe are strange characters because they are the correct characters.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-06-06T09:21:33Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 12