German Quotationmarks

Glyphs
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Hey everyone,

i just started using Glyphs and have to create a Font for a german client (I am german myself too).
In Germany we quote like that: „Hello“. We have the first mark on the baseline, second up top. Every font I know and used so far did that automatically. On a german Layout I simply press shift+2 both times. In Glyphs 3 I get the ‘quotedbl’ glyph when I do that. I designed the ‘quotedblbase’ but I do not know the keybind for that.

What I need to know is: How to implement/code what ever, the german quotation marks? Thanks in advance!

Best from Germany.

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This quote substitution is not done by the font, but by the operating system or app that you are using. On a Mac, this is configurable in the System Preferences:

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Glyphs does not do this quote substitution on purpose so you always get what you have typed. On a German keyboard, that would be Shift-2 for ", Option-^ for „ and Option-Shift-^ for “ (and also Shift-# for ', Option-S for ‚ and Option-# for ‘).

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Tested it in Illustrator and it worked as intended. Today I learned something :smiley: Thank you very much!