@prometh
Typographically speaking, there are very specific characters for quotemarks. This plugin (optionally) forces these characters. I am unaware of any Unicode characters that can validly be used in place of these.
If you are not seeing these quotemarks when you use the plugin, you may have not turned on the “Intelligent Character Replacement” options in the administrative menu.
I am seeing different quotation marks. Uglier ones. I like the ones I listed above, and they are valid Unicode.
The curled quotemarks above are the same Unicode characters used in wp-Typography’s smart quote replacement. If your quotemarks appear differently, the issue is more likely the font used on your website. Every font defines what the unicode characters look like. Just as the letter “a” will appear differently with Georgia or Verdana fonts, so will quotemark characters.
If you like the font used on these forums, the CSS declaration is:
font-family: "Lucida Grande",Verdana,"Bitstream Vera Sans",Arial,sans-serif;
You can update your themes CSS file with these font families.
Ah, I see. I hadn’t tested it, but was just looking at how the characters were displayed in the WordPress admin.
Thanks.