Indesign cc14 - quotation marks won't change to regular.

My quotation marks won't change to regular marks
my document has french quotation marks : << >>
and i need the regular ones. " "
i already checked the preferences / dictionary, but they're already set to regular.

Language is assigned to text at the character level. Dictionary prefs affect the dictionary to be used when a particular language is assigned.
You can see the language assigned to text either in the dropdown at the bottom of the Character panel, it's analog in the Control panel when in text mode, or in the definition dialogs for the styles applied to selected text.

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Hi Peter,
your solution is pretty good while the pairs of quotes are complete and you only use one sort of typographer quotes.
But what if once the final quote is missing?
Or if you want to use different language sensitive quotes for a document with multilingual text?
Another approach is to take use of the execution of typographer quotes of InDesign itself.
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That's not what you have been looking for. ;-)
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? app.selection[0]
: myDoc;
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After all, apostrophes () will disturb the changing also in this approach, because they are not recognized as apostrophes but as single typographical quotes.
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