russian quotation marks

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russian quotation marks

guys, this is the fifth or sixth version of pages i have now and still nothing is done concerning the Russian quotation marks.

you see, in typographically correct Russian we always use quotation marks like these «» and virtually never like these ", and while the closing quotation mark (») is available at alt (option) + =, there is absolutely no way to type in the opening quotation mark («).

please let me know if there is a solution to my problem, as this is the only setback i suffered since moving from MS Office to iWork.

thanks

OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 23, 2014 5:35 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 23, 2014 5:59 AM in response to khait

khait wrote:

… there is absolutely no way to type in the opening quotation mark («).

You didn't say what keyboard you are using. I am using the Australian/USA keyboard.

option | = «

option shift | = »

Peter

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Answer 2

fruhulda

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Feb 23, 2014 5:53 AM in response to khait

On Snow Leopard all three available Russian keyboards do have both « and ».

To set which type of quotation marks you want you open the System preferences > Language and text > Text > Do the changes for the different buttons.

I presume you should be able to do it on Mavericks too.

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 23, 2014 6:55 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

You didn't say what keyboard you are using

Surely it is more likely Russian than Australian:-)

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 23, 2014 7:01 AM in response to khait

khait wrote:

while the closing quotation mark (») is available at alt (option) + =, there is absolutely no way to type in the opening quotation mark («).

Nonsense. The opening quotation mark is at alt/option plus shift on the same key (Russian layout). For many years already.

Let us know if that really does not work for you.

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Answer 5

Feb 23, 2014 12:21 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Russian/Australian, all the same! 🙂

Peter

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