German quotation marks on iOS

Hello,
as a German I would like to use German quotation marks on iOS. In German they open at the bottom and close at the top.
I find it very annoying having to go through all texts I wrote on my iPad just to correct all the quotation marks.
Thanks in advamce!

Do you mean like this „ ” ? If so switch to the numbers screen, hold your finger on the quotation mark key, slide it up to the desired quote mark, release finger.

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I've got a problem with "Pages". As a German user I'd like to use German quotation marks, those that open low and close high. At the moment I can use only English quotation marks, opening and closing high. How can I fix this specific problem so that the quotation marks open low and close high automatically.
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I've been wondering about this for a while and now that iOS 8 made some leaps with the keyboard, hopefully what I want is now possible. Fair warning this is rather specific.
The default quote marks on iOS look like this: "quote."
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After i'm parsing the text and links and adding them to the Lists in another class i'm doing a comparison using this Lists:
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When it's getting to the line with the quotation marks it's never equal.
Now there are more quotation marks.
In general the problem when comparing both text if it's having quotation marks it's not the same.
So i have two options:
1. To fix it somehow so the quotation marks will be the same in both variables when comparing and also the same like in the original as they show in the html page.
2. To remove the quotation marks from both variables.
What should i do ? And how ? I was prefer to use the original quotation marks like in the original since they have a meaning in the place they should be. The question is how can i do it ?
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Ok, it is unclear on what is happening here.
Are you saying that when the webclient gets the data that it is not honoring the quote characters? Or the processing of the data buffer is causing issues?
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>I need to figure out why in some instance quotation marks
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database. The
> articles
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text (so
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>
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with formatting
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> font
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